Bug#478286: gnome-panel: Lots of kde config entries end up in "Other" menu
Bas Zoetekouw
bas at debian.org
Mon Apr 28 17:18:37 UTC 2008
reassign 478286 kcontrol
thanks
Hi Josselin!
Done.
You wrote:
> Le lundi 28 avril 2008 à 17:16 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw a écrit :
> > I'm using Gnome as my main desktop, but I have a few kde applications
> > installed (notably Amarok and Konqueror). Those two end up nicelyin
> > the gnome menu in Audio and Internet, respectively, but the kde apps
> > pull in kdebase and kcontrol and such. This causes a "Other" menu to
> > appear in the gnome menu, which contains 90 (or so) individual kde
> > setting items, which useless names such as "CGI", "Behaviour",
> > "Cache", "Protocols", etc.
> > This seems to be caused by a weird handling or the desktop files in
> > /usr/share/applications/kde. Those have a "Categories" line that
> > reads "Categories=Qt;KDE;X-KDE-information;" or
> > "Categories=Qt;KDE;X-KDE-settings-hardware;", which Gnome apparently
> > doesn't understand.
> >
> > Would it be possible to either filter out thosekde settings (they are
> > available from the setup menus in the individual KDE applications you
> > use anyway), or move them to a proper hierarchy (maybe onder
> > System/Preferences even)?
>
> There is a flag defined in the freedesktop specification for such cases,
> and it should be used for all these .desktop files:
> OnlyShowIn=KDE
> This way they will be automatically filtered out in GNOME and XFCE.
>
> Could you please reassign this bug to the KDE packages in which these
> files belong?
>
> Thanks,
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