Bug 98738 – RFE: KDE program property changes for Frozen Bubble

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Neil Darlow 2005-07-11 23:44:35 UTC]

There are a few tidy-ups needed for frozen bubble under KDE(-3.4.x):

1) Having /usr/games/bin set in Work Path prevents the copying of music.raw and
sound gets disabled. Leaving Work Path blank allows sound to work.

2) Having Lanuch Feedback enabled leaves a frozen-bubble process in the Taskbar
with a busy cursor for some time after startup. Disabling Launch Feedback
doesn't produce this effect.

3) The desktop file is named frozen-bubble-frozen-bubble.desktop. Is this a typo
or is it really meant to be named that?

Regards,
Neil Darlow

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-07-12 05:56:32 UTC]

1) need more info

2) KDE bug, not frozen-bubble

3) it is named correctly

[Comment 2 Neil Darlow 2005-07-15 10:56:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 1) need more info

The desktop file contains the line:

  Path=/usr/games/bin

which, in the menu editor, refers to the "Work path:" setting. Part of the sound
startup of Frozen Bubble entails the conversion of the program's music that
generates a file named music.raw. /usr/games/bin isn't writable for users so the
sound startup fails and sound is disabled. Leaving Path blank allows creation of
music.raw in the user's home directory and the sound is enabled in the game.

> 2) KDE bug, not frozen-bubble

Not sure this is a KDE bug per se. If Frozen Bubble doesn't support startup
notification then the KDE launcher waits (30 seconds?) then clears the busy
cursor and startup task. This is default behaviour and requires an entry of the form

 StartupNotify=false

in the .desktop file to disable the behaviour. Try this for yourself and see if
you prefer the behaviour without the extended busy indication.

> 3) it is named correctly

ok, I'll live with it then :-)

Regards,
Neil Darlow

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-07-15 15:16:24 UTC]

ok, i see the Path= bug in the eclass, i'll fix that

as for the startup notify cruft, i dont see how that's a frozen-bubble specific
issue ... i imagine a *lot* more games dont support it than do

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2005-07-15 15:17:02 UTC]

games no longer set Path to /usr/games/bin