After choosing "Show applications by name", some menu entries become blank

English Applications
1

I searched the forums for this particular problem, but I couldn’t find anything.

I prefer Kickoff to “show applications by name” due to the descriptions being so generic most of the time. But on openSUSE some application names are blank, i.e.:

http://i.imgur.com/rIzjV.png

Is this a bug or did someone really think that nobody would want to change the defaults?

I’m on openSUSE 11.4, 64-bit, KDE 4.7.2 (from the KDE Factory, but this happens even with the default KDE shipped with openSUSE).

2

Hi
Probably if you check the *.desktop file there is no ‘generic’ name
specified. They are upstream bugs as nothing has been specified.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 4:21, 6 users, load average: 0.48, 0.39, 0.34
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 285.05.09

3

Precisely:

[Desktop Entry]
X-SuSE-translate=true
Categories=System;Settings;HardwareSettings;X-SuSE-PrintingUtility;
Exec=desktop-launch http://localhost:631/
NotShowIn=GNOME;
Icon=cups
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Name=Manage Printing
Comment=CUPS Web Interface

Well, I guess I can live with that. Thank you for the response.

4

Hi
You could manually add the GenericName string, more info here;
Desktop Entry Specification

5

On 10/19/2011 07:56 PM, Devenire wrote:
>
> Is this a bug or did someone really think that nobody would want to

no problem here, see http://paste.opensuse.org/49782483, with software
mix as in sig…so a bug report is needed.

–
DD
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Software
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems

6

It’d be lost after a package upgrade, wouldn’t it?

But you are using the default settings, which show applications by description and not by name. And should I report it against the distro or the upstream projects (CUPS and KDE at least)? I haven’t seen that happen on Fedora.

Another thing is, if I add the entry to favorites, the name is shown correctly.

7

Hi
Don’t know about KDE but for openSUSE packaging on the GNOME side we don’t add the generic name if it’s not included by upstream. I would look at upstream, then you can push it back to openSUSE if they fix it.

8

On 10/20/2011 05:16 AM, Devenire wrote:

> But you are using the default settings, which show applications by
> description and not by name.

ok, you are right…i changed it (see:
http://paste.opensuse.org/23777391)…so, now i can try to answer
another of your questions:

“Is this a bug or did someone really think that nobody would want to
change the defaults?”

imo it is a bug to not provide the name for each

but, i doubt that a conscious decision was made to do that because
someone really thought that nobody would want to change the
defaults…imo, more likely a simple oversight…a bug of omission
rather than commission…

–
DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems

9

Sorry for joining in late, but I have fixed this bug yesterday.

Fixed packages should appear soon in KDE:istro:Factory and KDE:Release:49.

I have also created packages for standard openSUSE 12.1 and 12.2.
It would be nice if someone could test them.
For further informations where to find them, have a look at the bugreport: URL="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725829
Please report back there, maybe they can be released as online update…

Thank you!

10

Sorry, something went wrong and I cannot edit my post anymore…
It should read:

Fixed packages should appear soon in KDE: Distro:Factory and KDE:Release:49.

For further informations where to find them, have a look at the bugreport: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725829](Invalid Bug ID)