On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:08:11PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Yep. This is a pseudo-bug. Because of the way people have been
> interpreting the spec for .desktop files, all of these provide .desktop
> files where the name is "Terminal". So they're all placed on the
same
> page. This could be fixed in the .desktop files (Judging from past
> experience, I think that's a losing effort). Or someone could code up
> some other ways of extracting and reconciling this information. There are
> other things that could be enhanced in this. For instance, there's
> currently no extraction or recording of information about applications
> that lack a .desktop file.
Konsole actually has:
Name=Konsole
GenericName=Terminal
as it's supposed to by the spec. You need to fix pkgdb: Name ≠ GenericName.
Of course, there's also stuff (such as the other 2 terminals involved)
stuffing generic names into Name, which needs to be fixed…
Looking at the pkgdb page, it looks like kdebase is only showing up for the
"Terminal" app for F-12. Looking at that old package, there is a .desktop
that contains Name=Terminal there but it's not konsole:
./usr/share/kde4/apps/kappfinder/apps/System/Terminal/aterm.desktop:Name=Terminal
I'm going to be looking into getting rid of the EOL release builds next week
so this will probably cease to be a problem but I do wonder if this is
a bug. Is kappfinder just using the .desktop format to keep its own
database? Should the pkgdb import script just scan for files in
regex: /usr/share/applications/.*\.desktop
Let me know if that's the case and I can probably find where the code is
scanning for .desktop files and fix it.
-Toshio