[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#820559: lxpanel: Application Launchbar doesn't show item unless Version key in .desktop file

[Wim Lewis]

Package: lxpanel
Version: 0.7.2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

I installed an application (the debian "pithos" package), but Pithos
does not show up in the list of available applications in the LXDE
application launchbar settings panel unless I manually add the line
"Version=1.0" to pithos.desktop.

The spec on freedesktop.org[1] lists the Version key as "optional",
and there are no defined values other than "1.0", so I think this a
bug in the application launchbar rather than an error in the pithos
desktop file. The desktop file should be recognized regardless of
whether it contains a Version key.

As an experiment, I removed the Version line from gimp.desktop and it
stopped showing up in the launchbar configuration dialog (but
reappeared when I re-added it), so I don't think this is specific to
anything about Pithos.

[1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lxpanel depends on:
ii  libasound2          1.0.28-1
ii  libc6               2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  libcairo2           1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii  libfm-gtk4          1.2.3-1
ii  libfm-modules       1.2.3-1
ii  libfm4              1.2.3-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.31.1-2+deb8u4
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.42.1-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.25-3+deb8u1
ii  libiw30             30~pre9-8
ii  libmenu-cache3      1.0.0-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0      1.36.8-3
ii  libwnck22           2.30.7-2
ii  libx11-6            2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxml2             2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u1
ii  lxmenu-data         0.1.4-1
ii  lxpanel-data        0.7.2-1

Versions of packages lxpanel recommends:
ii  xkb-data  2.12-1

Versions of packages lxpanel suggests:
ii  chromium [www-browser]   49.0.2623.108-1~deb8u1
ii  iceweasel [www-browser]  38.7.1esr-1~deb8u1
ii  lxsession                0.5.1-2
ii  menu                     2.1.47
ii  w3m [www-browser]        0.5.3-19

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