Bug#771676: mate-panel: Desktop launchers drag-and-drop-copied to panel vanish silently when removed from desktop

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: close -1
Control: tags -1 wontfix

On  Mo 01 Dez 2014 15:57:54 CET, Stephan Sürken wrote:

> Package: mate-panel
> Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-2
> Severity: minor
> Tags: upstream
>
> Dear maintainers,
>
> doing this
>
> 1. Create some launcher on the desktop (RM->Create Launcher)
> 2. Copy launcher to some panel (Drag-And-Drop)
> 3. Remove launcher from desktop
> 4. Logout+Login (so mate-panel is refreshed)
>
> silently leaves the user with no launcher visible any more in
> the panel. It's still in the panel's config though; (for example)
> resurrecting the Desktop Launcher from the Trash makes it visible
> again after Logout/Login.
>
> There is no way to notice for the user (i.e., via the MATE
> desktop) that such a broken panel item ist still configured. The
> only way to see is via the user's ".xsession-errors" file
> ("Unable to open desktop file"...).
>
> Imho, one of the following simple solutions would fix this:
>
> - Just show the broken items in the panel anyway, so the user can  
> deal with them.
> - Add a pop-up whether the user wants to remove the broken items  
> (like for broken panel apps).
>
> Furthermore, when Drag-and-drop the desktop launcher to the
> panel, it shows a '+', which should read 'copy', but this
> obviously is not a real copy -- a different issue (this is about
> error handling only), but related.
>
> Thx!
>
> Stephan

The above is intended behaviour (as just learned from upstream).

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/287#issuecomment-125750565

Thus, closing this Debian report. Please continue discussion on the  
upstream issue, if you think that this behaviour should be changed.

light+love,
Mike
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