Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 20:01:02 +0200 From: Alberto Villa <avilla@FreeBSD.org> To: Cameron Berkenpas <cam@neo-zeon.de> Cc: Koop Mast <kwm@freebsd.org>, desktop@freebsd.org, kde@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] kde4 related bug Message-ID: <CAJp7RHa6q90rO4A_ygPpdN05wH-wo5NNKstqSYK78cAfOaHnKQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FC8ECE7.6070608@neo-zeon.de> References: <4FC8ECE7.6070608@neo-zeon.de>
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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Cameron Berkenpas <cam@neo-zeon.de> wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the correct place to report bugs (this is my 1st > time reporting an issue relating to FreeBSD) so feel free to direct me to > the correct place. It's OK. Reporting a bug would have been fine too: http://www.freebsd.org/support/bugreports.html > I'm seeing an issue where if I drag entries from the Applications menu to > the desktop in KDE 4.8.3 (I've seen this issue with KDE 4.7.x in FreeBSD > too), I get an icon with an exclamation point. If I double click on the > icon, it attempts to run the application directly from my home directory and > I get 2 popup windows. > > The 1st window states: > "This will start the program: > /home/username/pidgin > If you do not trust this program, click Cancel" > > Then when I click continue I get: > "Unable to make the service Pidgin executable, aborting execution" > > Note that the exclamation point remains. > > I did some digging and the issue is that the icons are being created in > /home/username/Desktop with 444 permissions (and sometimes 644). To fix the > issue, the permissions need to be 755 (presumably 555 would work too). > > I found that the permissions are being copied along with the icons from > /usr/local/share/applications/ (so my umask of 022 is ignored). All the > icons in /usr/local/share/applications/ are 444 (except for 2 which were > 644). I "fixed" the issue by setting the permissions of > /usr/local/share/applications/*.desktop to 755. Now I can copy icons from > the applications menu without issue. This is a problem with the pidgin port (and presumably others), which uses ${INSTALL_DATA} to install the file manually, and that doesn't obviously add the execution bit. > Note: Icons from other directories where the icons already have 755 > permissions work with no changes (ie > /usr/local/kde4/share/applications/kde4). Rules for their installation are inside the tarball, not our own. > Not sure if the bug is that the icons under /usr/local/share/applications/ > need to be created with 755 permissions or if KDE needs to not require > executable permissions on files it doesn't directly execute (*.desktop > files). I wouldn't call this a bug. Anyway, *.desktop files should probably be installed with execution bit. KDE behaves just fine warning you with the exclamation mark. I agree that a more useful error message could be reported, but that's not the point here. I'm forwarding this to desktop@ as it's something to be discussed with other parties. kwm@, especially. Should we use ${INSTALL_SCRIPT} for *.desktop files? -- Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla@FreeBSD.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla
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