** Description changed:
- Note to Sponsors
- ----------------
- Since Precise is still partially open, let's see if the Release/SRU Teams are
willing to accept this SRU for Precise ecause of the Impact there.
+ Note
+ ----
+ Yes, I know precise is basically unsupported but it might be nice to fix
Travis here anyway.
Impact
------
Cinnamon (and the less popular EDE and LXQt) desktops are not recognized by
desktop-file-validate in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 14.04 LTS.
This is a problem because the very popular Travis service for continuous
integration (CI) on platforms like Github still uses 12.04 LTS. Travis
does not offer a 16.04 platform and the 14.04 platform is still only in
beta. This caused this pull request to fail its CI check:
https://travis-ci.org/zdohnal/system-config-printer/builds/222023750
https://github.com/zdohnal/system-config-printer/pull/41
This SRU adds these Desktop Environments to the recognized list for
14.04 LTS: Cinnamon, EDE, LXQt.
If accepted, 12.04 LTS will also add TDE.
Test Case
---------
1. Save the following lines in a file named calc.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Calculator
Exec=gnome-calculator
Icon=accessories-calculator
Type=Application
OnlyShowIn=Cinnamon;LXQt;EDE;
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;Calculator;
2. Run
desktop-file-validate calc.desktop
The command should complete with no error message.
A failure would look something like:
calc.desktop: error: value "Cinnamon;LXQt;EDE;" for key "OnlyShowIn" in group
"Desktop Entry" contains an unregistered value "Cinnamon"; values extending the
format should start with "X-"
Regression Potential
---------------------
This only adds a few entries to the list of registered desktop environments.
This change is backported from desktop-file-utils 0.23 which is in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
** Changed in: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Changed in: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Patch removed: "desktop-file-utils-lp1693089-precise.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desktop-file-utils/+bug/1693089/+attachment/4882254/+files/desktop-file-utils-lp1693089-precise.patch
** Patch removed: "desktop-file-utils-lp1693089-trusty.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desktop-file-utils/+bug/1693089/+attachment/4882255/+files/desktop-file-utils-lp1693089-trusty.patch
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Cinnamon is not a recognized Desktop Environment before Ubuntu 16.04
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