[Portland-bugs] [Bug 20462] New: xdg-desktop-menu Fails Without desktop-directories Folder.

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20462

           Summary: xdg-desktop-menu Fails Without desktop-directories
                    Folder.
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: pat at suwalski.net


I am in the process of making a fairly minimalistic XFCE-based distribution. We
use Thunar as the file manager, and one of the packages we would like to put on
the system uses xdg-desktop-menu to install its ".desktop" file.

However, the file is never placed in /usr/share/applications, because the
xdg-desktop-menu script errors out:

  "No writable system menu directory found."

The issue is we don't have anything that installs a
/usr/share/desktop-directories directory. Creating one causes the script to run
properly and install the ".desktop" file in /usr/share/applications. However,
the desktop-directories directory still remains empty.

The bug is that I can't see any reason why xdg-desktop-menu should error out
when /usr/share/desktop-directories does not exist. It installs the ".desktop"
file in /usr/share/applications anyway.


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