Openoffice desktop entries in gnome menu are wrong after updating

Garret · 2009-09-01 08:28:23

I updated to the new version of Openoffice (openoffice-base 3.1.1-1).
Now in gnome menu all desktop entries of openoffice suite are wrong. For example the writer entry is /opt/openoffice/program/soffice -writer

[garret@desktop .dnsomatic-0.1.2]$ /opt/openoffice/program/soffice
bash: /opt/openoffice/program/soffice: No such file or directory

I have to give soffice --writer to start the program.
Why didn't the package correct these entries?

The only solution is to edit each entry manually?

majiq · 2009-09-01 09:07:23

There's a part of the PKGBUILD that's supposed to take care of this:

        sed -i -e 's|Exec=openoffice.org3|Exec=/usr/bin/soffice|g' *.desktop || return 1
        sed -i -e 's|Exec=/usr/bin/soffice-printeradmin|Exec=/usr/bin/spadmin|g' printeradmin.desktop || return 1
        # fix exec commands in shortcuts for Xfce menu
        sed -i -e 's|base %U|base|g' base.desktop || return 1
        sed -i -e 's|calc %U|calc|g' calc.desktop || return 1
        sed -i -e 's|draw %U|draw|g' draw.desktop || return 1
        sed -i -e 's|impress %U|impress|g' impress.desktop || return 1
        sed -i -e 's|math %U|math|g' math.desktop || return 1
        sed -i -e 's|writer %U|writer|g' writer.desktop || return 1

If you don't mind, you could try and figure out why it's not working properly, and then provide a patch to the PKGBUILD.

AndyRTR · 2009-09-01 09:37:19

please check these files:

openoffice-base /usr/share/applications/base.desktop
openoffice-base /usr/share/applications/calc.desktop
openoffice-base /usr/share/applications/draw.desktop
openoffice-base /usr/share/applications/impress.desktop
openoffice-base /usr/share/applications/math.desktop
openoffice-base /usr/share/applications/printeradmin.desktop
openoffice-base /usr/share/applications/startcenter.desktop
openoffice-base /usr/share/applications/writer.desktop

they should all point to /usr/bin like this:

[andyrtr@workstation64 ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/writer.desktop | grep Exec
Exec=/usr/bin/soffice -writer

Garret · 2009-09-01 09:42:03

@AndyRTR

[garret@desktop ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/writer.desktop | grep Exec
Exec=/usr/bin/soffice -writer

But I edited manually each entry in gnome menu before your message

AndyRTR · 2009-09-01 10:24:34

please reinstall the pkg and check again. I would wonder how it could be broken. My x86_64 entries look ok. But so far I haven't seen anybody else with broken entries. What architecture? i686?

Garret · 2009-09-01 11:16:37

AndyRTR wrote:

please reinstall the pkg and check again. I would wonder how it could be broken. My x86_64 entries look ok. But so far I haven't seen anybody else with broken entries. What architecture? i686?

If I give sudo pacman -R openoffice-base openoffice-it, I saw entries in gnome menu remain, but of course they don't open anything.

AndyRTR · 2009-09-01 12:01:52

It seems you manually configured something in your menu that broke the freedesktop.org .desktop files. Remove any OOo related menu entries after you pacman -R (removed) it and then reinstall with -S openoffice-base. Then check the included .desktop files (Exec commandc and maybe their timestamp).

Garret · 2009-09-01 12:12:32

AndyRTR wrote:

It seems you manually configured something in your menu that broke the freedesktop.org .desktop files. Remove any OOo related menu entries after you pacman -R (removed) it and then reinstall with -S openoffice-base. Then check the included .desktop files (Exec commandc and maybe their timestamp).

I removed openoffice and then all the voices in gnome menu.
I installed openoffice again but now menu voices don't appear in gnome menu

Instead, giving:

[garret@desktop ~]$ cat /usr/share/applications/writer.desktop | grep Exec
Exec=/usr/bin/soffice -writer

AndyRTR · 2009-09-01 12:28:54

no idea what you mean with "voices", but now your menu entries .desktop files look ok. so the pkg is correct.

Garret · 2009-09-01 12:31:27

AndyRTR wrote:

no idea what you mean with "voices", but now your menu entries .desktop files look ok. so the pkg is correct.

For voices I mean desktop entries in gnome menu. Now I don't have any icons in gnome menu of openoffice suite.

How can I restore the icons in gnome menu?

rsambuca · 2009-09-01 15:43:53

I don't know why either, but my OO writer entry for the gnome menu was borked too after the update. All the other OO products were properly set up.

Garret · 2009-09-01 17:34:19

rsambuca wrote:

I don't know why either, but my OO writer entry for the gnome menu was borked too after the update. All the other OO products were properly set up.

I think the problem is related with Alacarte: editing entries with it then seems updates can't modify the entries, so you have to edit each entry manually.

Now I am adding openoffice suite entries manually, because reinstalling openoffice doesn't restore the original entries in gnome menu

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