Bug 20462

Summary:	xdg-desktop-menu Fails Without desktop-directories Folder.
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	Pat Suwalski <pat>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Pat Suwalski 2009-03-04 08:23:34 UTC

I am in the process of making a fairly minimalistic XFCE-based distribution. We use Thunar as the file manager, and one of the packages we would like to put on the system uses xdg-desktop-menu to install its ".desktop" file.

However, the file is never placed in /usr/share/applications, because the xdg-desktop-menu script errors out:

  "No writable system menu directory found."

The issue is we don't have anything that installs a /usr/share/desktop-directories directory. Creating one causes the script to run properly and install the ".desktop" file in /usr/share/applications. However, the desktop-directories directory still remains empty.

The bug is that I can't see any reason why xdg-desktop-menu should error out when /usr/share/desktop-directories does not exist. It installs the ".desktop" file in /usr/share/applications anyway.

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