Bug 88280

Summary:	Actions are not defined for some detected DE's (Enlightenment, Mate) in xdg-su xdg-terminal and others (partial patch)
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	simon
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	fix enlightenment patch

Description simon 2015-01-10 21:01:38 UTC

It seems like in several cases detection is added for a desktop environment then a action is added to say xdg-open but not xdg-su or xdg-terminal, this causes them to fail rather then using the generic option as they would have in the past.

xdg-su and xdg-terminal are both broken in this way on enlightenment as the support is detected for xdg-open but nothing is specified for the other cases. 

The following patch https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/X11:common:Factory/xdg-utils/fix-enlightenment-support.patch?expand=1 fixes and enhances enlightenment support by using enlightenments terminal emulator (terminology) rather then xterm.

When i was looking at this issue in more detail it seemed like mate suffered from a similar issue in atleast 1 tool but all should probably be checked to see they have a action for each tool, if not they need to run the generic tool.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2015-01-11 03:39:48 UTC

thanks.

(Yes, these could probably use a lot more love, there's a reason they're not enabled by default).

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2015-01-11 13:59:56 UTC

Can you attach the bug please?

It's not clear to me how to extract the raw patch from the link you provided.

Comment 3 simon 2015-01-12 07:59:38 UTC

Created attachment 112114 [details] [review]
fix enlightenment patch

Comment 4 simon 2015-01-12 08:00:07 UTC

Sorry the link is on the previous page, attached now

Comment 5 Per Olofsson 2015-09-23 01:49:42 UTC

I'm lowering the importance to minor because these tools aren't really part of xdg-utils since they are not installed by the build system.

Regarding xdg-su, shouldn't it be deprecated in favour of PolicyKit?

xdg-terminal could be useful though.

Comment 6 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:36:26 UTC

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