Ticket #4201 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 5 months ago

Last modified 2 months ago

Fix desktop icon launchers that need the terminal

Reported by: hardert Assigned to: hardert
Priority: minor Milestone: RADIX.2
Component: General Software Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Applications that need to use the terminal and have the Terminal=true key set in their desktop files don't launch at all since matchbox-desktop or something related doesn't set a default terminal. Some OE recipes provides their own desktop files to use x-terminal-emulator to launch the console apps.

It would be best if we could patch matchbox-desktop or something to handle the Terminal key as specified by the freedesktop specifications for desktop files.

Change History

07/29/09 15:06:04 changed by hardert

  • owner set to hardert.

It's probably best to script this for now before diving into the matchbox code.

09/17/09 03:05:15 changed by hardert

The best way to do this for now would be to add another script to the rootfs postprocess function that scans through all the launcher files in /usr/share/applications and changes the files that will be broken.

10/08/09 00:25:44 changed by hardert

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

I've fixed the main packages deployed on the base system so I'm closing this bug. In the future, we'll definitely be using a different piece of software that's implements more of the freedesktop standard so we won't have these issues.