Bug 498731

Summary: desktop files: print names of dubious files
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1 Reporter: Karl Eichwalder <ke>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: AmigaPhil, forgotten_taWGjDL4xO, ke, vuntz
Version: Final   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Description Karl Eichwalder 2009-04-28 07:48:37 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #492305 +++

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009022800 SUSE/3.0.7-1.1.6 Firefox/3.0.7

When I start Gnucash and select to Open the Nrew User Tutorial, I am taken to the KDE Help Center where I receive this error message: "There is no documentation available for /usr/share/gnucash/gnome/help/gnucash/C/gnucash-guide.xml"

Similarly if I select Help from the top level menu in the Gnucash menus.

OK next thing I try is to look for help re Gnucash in Yelp. There's no entry for Gnucash in Yelp.

Reproducible: Always




I need to run a business so for me it's Major. I don't really want to run Quickbooks in a VMware machine again. Why does this not get fixed after appearing in the past editions of openSUSE. Frustration!!

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 -------  Comment #4 From  Karl Eichwalder   2009-04-28 01:44:48 MDT   (-) [reply] -------      Private

BTW, it would help if yelp would print the name of the .directory resp.
.desktop file.

What's the name of the element yelp complains about?

    ; DocPath: ; Icon=document2

This was meant as a comment (I once was told the ";" sign is a comment start
letter--according to
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s02.html#comments
only "#" seems to be allowed).

I'll clone this report to check the opensuse-manual related desktop files.
Comment 1 Karl Eichwalder 2009-04-28 13:18:39 UTC 
fixed in SVN.
Comment 2 Karl Eichwalder 2009-04-28 13:51:28 UTC 
yelp please to print the name of dubious .directory and .desktop files.
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2009-04-28 15:16:51 UTC 
Karl: I don't understand the bug report. Can you clarify what you would like to be done here?

Do you want yelp to print what's wrong? I'd disagree, since if it's a desktop file issue, it will be caught by desktop-file-validate.
Comment 4 Karl Eichwalder 2009-04-29 02:22:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Karl: I don't understand the bug report. Can you clarify what you would like to
> be done here?

yelp just prints (from memory):

WARNING: unknown element ; DocPath

It would be much more useful to see:

/path/to/file.desktop: WARNING: unknown element ; DocPath

> Do you want yelp to print what's wrong? I'd disagree, since if it's a desktop
> file issue, it will be caught by desktop-file-validate.

I'll check out this tool.  Maybe, calling desktop-file-validate at installation time should be mandatory.
Comment 5 Vincent Untz 2012-05-16 11:26:06 UTC 
This got fixed with the new yelp, in GNOME 3.