Bug#489337: Menu entry provided by gdmflexiserver-xnest.desktop confusing for users when Xnest is not installed

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 05 juillet 2008 à 00:48 -0300, Martín Ferrari a écrit :
> Hi, having first discovered the "New Login in a Window" menu entry in my
> GNOME desktop today, I was a little confused with the unfriendly message
> telling me that there was "some" error. After looking at the .desktop
> file, I could infer from the command line that I'd need xnest for it to
> work. But I'm pretty sure that the average user -and prossibly anybody
> that doesn't know how to look up what's being executed by the menu entry- will be confused.
> 
> It would be nice if you could provide a better error, or just avoid
> presenting that icon when xnest is not installed (dunno if that's
> possible).

This would be the best solution and is possible in the general case, but
I don’t know of a correct way to specify that Xnest OR Xephyr is
installed.

A possible solution would be to deprecate Xnest entirely, or to make
them specify an alternative.

Xorg maintainers: would you agree with installing an alternative,
say /usr/bin/nested-x-server, in both packages? This way we could
specify it as a TryExec field.

Thanks,
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