Ubuntu
prism package

desktop icons created by prism don't work

Bug #196861 reported by Matthew Nuzum
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
prism (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Fabien Tassin
Hardy
Fix Released
High
Fabien Tassin

Bug Description

Binary package hint: prism

On Hardy, when you use prism to create a link to a web application, it creates an icon on the desktop for the application. However, clicking it does nothing. The reason is the path created in the icon is wrong.

On a test I did, it created this line in the .desktop file:
Exec=xulrunner-1.9 /usr/lib/prism/application.ini -webapp <email address hidden>

It should instead be:
Exec=xulrunner-1.9 /usr/share/prism/application.ini -webapp <email address hidden>

(note the /usr/share/prism)

Editing the file and changing lib to share causes the icon to start working.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

$ apt-cache policy prism
prism:
  Installed: 0.8+svn20071115r8030-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.8+svn20071115r8030-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.8+svn20071115r8030-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Related branches

lp:prism
lp:ubuntu/karmic/prism
Revision history for this message
Beni Buess (beni-benel) wrote :

I confirm this behaviour with the same software versions.

Changed in prism:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Michael Chang (thenewme91) wrote :

The problem in question is introduced by debian/patches/fix_desktop_launcher.patch which contains the following line:

+ cmd += "Exec=xulrunner-1.9 /usr/lib/prism/application.ini -webapp " + id + "\n";

Attached is an updated patch, which points to /usr/share/prism/application.ini instead.

Revision history for this message
Fabien Tassin (fta) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this.
Fix committed in the bzr branch.

Changed in prism:
assignee: nobody → fta
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → ubuntu-8.04-beta
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in prism:
milestone: ubuntu-8.04-beta → none
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package prism - 0.8+svn20071115r8030-0ubuntu2

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prism (0.8+svn20071115r8030-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.7.3
    - update debian/control
  * Bump debhelper requirement to (>= 5.0.51~) because of dh_icons
    - update debian/control
  * Fix desktop icons created by prism (LP: #196861)
    Thanks to Michael Chang <email address hidden>
    - update debian/patches/fix_desktop_launcher.patch
  * Updated desktop file categories (LP: #180879)
    Thanks to Dean Sas <email address hidden>
    - update debian/prism-google-*.desktop
  * Update update-apps.sh to handle desktop file categories
    - update debian/update-apps.sh
    - update debian/rules
  * Update prism-google-groups.desktop category too
    - update debian/prism-google-groups.desktop
  * Restore auto-save of webapps size and position broken since ScriptableIO
    has been dropped from xulrunner-1.9 (at beta 3).
    - add debian/patches/remove_scriptableio.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * Prevent webapps to be unpacked at each run so user data is now
    preserved (LP: #200469)
    - update debian/control
    - update debian/prism.sh

 -- Fabien Tassin <email address hidden> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:16:47 +0100

Changed in prism:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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