On Saturday 15 August 2009 19:58:00 Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
On 08/15/2009 01:39 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 15 August 2009 16:33:40 Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
>> One thing that does bother me about my ~/.local/share/applications-bad
>> directory is that multiple desktop configuration files exist for the
>> same applications. The worst case appears to be for Audacious; there
>> are seven different desktop configuration files for it.
>
> Glad you're getting nearer. I'm curious about this ^^ statement. Can
> you look inside some of those files? Do they look as though they
> actually are all for Audacious, or whether something else went wrong,
> like a corrupted index, that might cause them to be mis-named?
>
> Are there many applications that have these duplicated file? And are
> they applications that were in use (or being launched) at the time of
> corruption?
>
> Anne
It appears that I am getting different results with different programs
when I look at my application-bad directory.
When I use Nautilus, the default app used when opening my home
directory, it lists multiple files with the same application name, in
this example Audacious. These file names do not include an extension
and their type is listed as "desktop configuration file".
When I use Emacs to display the same directory, each file has a unique
file name. Grepping the directory yielded this list:
grep -nH -e Audacious *.*
alacarte-made-37.desktop:9:Name=Audacious
alacarte-made-37.desktop:10:Name[en_US]=Audacious
fedora-audacious.desktop:12:Name=Audacious
fedora-audacious-plugins.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
livna-audacious-aac.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
livna-audacious-alac.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
livna-audacious-mp3.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
livna-audacious-wma.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
<snip>
Fascinating as I find this, I confess that I don't have the skills to help
solve it. Are there dedicated Gnome lists where people who understand the
depths of nautilus could take a look? Or maybe even ask the nautilus
developer direct for assistance?
It certainly looks like a situation that you couldn't expect the file manager
to handle.
Anne
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