Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#268 closed defect (fixed)

.desktop files not parsed correctly

Reported by: Nathan Rennie-Waldock Owned by: Antoine gmail
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: Server Keywords:
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Description

.desktop files aren't being parsed correctly. Thunderbird is showing incorrectly as "Contacts". It appears only the last section is being processed, not the Desktop Entry section.

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thunderbird.desktop​ (9.8 KB) - added by Nathan Rennie-Waldock 10 years ago.

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Change History (5)

Changed 10 years ago by Nathan Rennie-Waldock

Attachment: thunderbird.desktop​ added

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by Antoine gmail

Owner: set to Antoine gmail
Status: new → accepted

Yeah, you're right, I think the easiest thing to do is to just parse the first one and stop there.

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by Nathan Rennie-Waldock

That should work. The alternative would be to use ConfigParser? to parse just the Desktop Entry section.

>>> from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
>>> config = ConfigParser()
>>> config.read("/usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop")
['/usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop']
>>> config.sections()
['Desktop Entry', 'Desktop Action Compose', 'Desktop Action Contacts']
>>> config.get("Desktop Entry", "Name")
'Thunderbird Mail'
>>> config.get("Desktop Entry", "Exec")
'thunderbird %u'
>>> config.get("Desktop Entry", "Icon")
'thunderbird'

comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by Antoine gmail

If I had been aware of ConfigParser when I wrote this code... we wouldn't have this problem!
Oh well, r5297 should fix this.

comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by Nathan Rennie-Waldock

Resolution: → fixed
Status: accepted → closed

Yep, that's working properly now. Thanks

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