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On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 13:38 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> I seem to see this from time to time when I look at the emerge logs |
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> that are emailed to me by portage, and I never know what to make of |
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> it. |
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> This one is from kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5: |
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> |
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> LOG: preinst |
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> /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/panel_appearance.desktop: required key "Name" not found -- |
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> required key "Type" not found |
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> Why is this allowed to occur? What am I expected to do about it, and |
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> how would I know that, given that I'm a user, not a developer? |
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> |
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FDO .desktop files should have "Type" and "Name" keys, e.g: |
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[Desktop Entry] |
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Encoding=UTF-8 |
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Version=1.0 |
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Type=Application |
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^^^^ |
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Terminal=false |
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Exec=Xephyr -screen 1024x768 -query flea -once :2 |
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Name[en_US]=flea |
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Icon[en_US]=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-xterm.png |
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Name=flea |
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^^^^ |
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Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-xterm.png |
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So looks like whatever is installing/manipulating the .desktop file is |
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not seeing those keys. Why is it allowed to occur? I suppose it's not |
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allowed and that's why the program is complaining. What are you |
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expected to do? Likely you'd search/create a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. |
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Could either be a problem with the .ebuild or ustream. I'm guessing the |
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latter. How would you know "that"? Not sure what "that" is. Users |
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aren't expected to know everything (neither are developers in fact). |
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When in doubt, do as you did and ask. |
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Albert W. Hopkins |
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