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On 08/15/2009 01:39 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Saturday 15 August 2009 16:33:40 Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
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<pre wrap="">One thing that does bother me about my ~/.local/share/applications-bad
directory is that multiple desktop configuration files exist for the
same applications. The worst case appears to be for Audacious; there
are seven different desktop configuration files for it.
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Glad you're getting nearer. I'm curious about this ^^ statement. Can you
look inside some of those files? Do they look as though they actually are all
for Audacious, or whether something else went wrong, like a corrupted index,
that might cause them to be mis-named?
Are there many applications that have these duplicated file? And are they
applications that were in use (or being launched) at the time of corruption?
Anne
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It appears that I am getting different results with different programs
when I look at my application-bad directory.<br>
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When I use Nautilus, the default app used when opening my home
directory, it lists multiple files with the same application name, in
this example Audacious. These file names do not include an extension
and their type is listed as "desktop configuration file".<br>
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When I use Emacs to display the same directory, each file has a unique
file name. Grepping the directory yielded this list:<br>
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<blockquote>grep -nH -e Audacious *.*<br>
alacarte-made-37.desktop:9:Name=Audacious<br>
alacarte-made-37.desktop:10:Name[en_US]=Audacious<br>
fedora-audacious.desktop:12:Name=Audacious<br>
fedora-audacious-plugins.desktop:10:Name=Audacious<br>
livna-audacious-aac.desktop:10:Name=Audacious<br>
livna-audacious-alac.desktop:10:Name=Audacious<br>
livna-audacious-mp3.desktop:10:Name=Audacious<br>
livna-audacious-wma.desktop:10:Name=Audacious<br>
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My guess is that Nautilus is opening the desktop file and displaying
the "name" value from within the file instead of the file name. This
provides the illusion that there are multiple files of the same name.<br>
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Up until now, and probably in the near future, I have not modified any
of the gnome menu, directory and desktop files directly. All my
changes have been through applet available by right clicking on the
main menu and select the "Edit Menus" option.<br>
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The Gnome Desktop System Administration Guide, section 2. Customizing
Menus, provides the information on the format of the .menu, .directory
and .desktop files and tells how they are scattered all over the system
with system defaults and user overrides. No wonder I could not tell
how the menus are built; they use so many files and in many cases scan
directories for more information to add to the menus. Complex but once
explained it is easy (relatively) to follow. My hat is off to the
people who QA this feature; there are so many variations that affect
the Gnome menus it must have been a nightmare to test extensively.<br>
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BTW. My hats are fedoras, completely independent of the OS that I am
using.<br>
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<div> Steven F. LeBrun<br>
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Quote: <em>"The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children
there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons.
Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed."</em><br>
-- G.K. Chesterton</p>
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