Bug#424923: Debian bug followup (Re: bug 424923)

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 21:21 -0400, A. Costa wrote:
> When the 'abiword' file is missing, 'Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe' starts OK.
> When the 'abiword' file is present, 'Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe' fails as
> per Bug#424923.  

Great, I can reproduce this behaviour myself now!

> The file is attached, it might be worth pointing out the garbage
> characters on line #4, and line #15 looks guilty...
> 
>   % nl -b a ~/.local/share/applications/abiword-usercustom.desktop | grep '[^1]4\|15'
>      4  Name[ja]=AbiWord ������������������������
>     15  MimeType=application/x-executable;

Yes, as you pointed out in the other mail, this is the japanese
translation, you probably don't have the correct fonts installed.

> Questions that come to mind:  if 'abiword-usercustom.desktop' is what
> causes it, then what caused that this unfavorable mutation?  Are the
> garbage characters normal?  Why should 'nautilus' properties for
> 'Desktop/SpaceMonger.exe' show 'wine'?

The -usercustom.desktop files are created when you manually add an
application to a mimetype it doesn't support. Maybe you added it by
mistake sometime in the past?

I have added the steps necessary to reproduce the bug in the upstream
report; https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6320 I will leave
it to them to figure out why Nautilus didn't list abiword and why it
gave a warning.

Thank you for the fast replies to my questions and the detailed answers,
it made it much easier to figure this one out. 

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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