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Bug 735127 - Some apps which used to be in Utilities are no longer there
Some apps which used to be in Utilities are no longer there
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-menus
Classification: Core
Component: layout
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-menus dummy account
gnome-menus dummy account
Depends on: 735287 735288 735289 735290 735291
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-08-20 21:59 UTC by Elad Alfassa
Modified: 2014-09-02 20:59 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: 3.14
GNOME version: ---


Description Elad Alfassa 2014-08-20 21:59:08 UTC 
According to https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-menus/tree/layout/gnome-applications.menu#n288 gnome-font-viewer and gnome-screenshot should be in Utilities. However, they appear outside it right now.

I don't know why it happened, perhaps they changed desktop file categories?
Comment 1 Elad Alfassa 2014-08-20 22:07:57 UTC 
it affects dconf-editor too
Comment 2 Elad Alfassa 2014-08-21 15:43:30 UTC 
and baobab
Comment 3 Cosimo Cecchi 2014-08-21 17:49:35 UTC 
I think they just changed desktop file names to follow the DBusActivatable convention. See e.g. https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-font-viewer/commit/?id=0cd81cb1f6c3dde74603173d34e1629eef6e6c4e
Comment 4 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2014-08-21 17:52:38 UTC 
The gnome-menus files doing categorization were always supposed to be a short-term hack. Apps should add the correct categories to their .desktop files.
Comment 5 Elad Alfassa 2014-08-21 17:56:57 UTC 
I still have /usr/share/applications/gnome-font-viewer.desktop here and it's not showing in Utilities.

My guess is they changed their desktop categories recently and thus much some other categories (ie. not X-GNOME-Utilities) in the .menu file.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2014-08-21 18:05:43 UTC 
<aday> it's how the shell puts apps in the predefined app folders

Tentatively set 3.14 gnome target though not entirely convinced myself here how
"bad" this really is, plus should really check and fix the .desktop files of aforementioned applications instead, if needed.
Comment 7 Elad Alfassa 2014-08-23 15:42:03 UTC 
Okay, so I'm starting to file bugs & submit patches to various apps which escaped Sundry or Utilities.

Let's keep this one open as a tracker bug, and fix the names in gnome-menus only if app maintainers are reluctant to merge the fixes to their desktop files.
Comment 8 Elad Alfassa 2014-09-02 20:59:33 UTC 
All tracked bugs are closed, and I'm not aware of any other app that we need to change now. Closing as fixed.