[Portland] xdg-tools failure + patch

[Martin Koller]

Hi all,

I'm trying to deliver an application which should be able to run on RedHat 9 
as well as on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.
I ship the xdg scripts (1.0) with my app, but now I discovered, that at least 
2 of them fail on RedHat 9 (running KDE):

xdg-screensaver and xdg-desktop-menu use the command
"mktemp" without arguments, which is impossible on RH9 as there the command 
requires the template argument (I patched this - attached).

xdg-screensaver does not run at all as it seems KDE-3.1 kdesktop does not 
expose a DCOP interface. Are there any alternatives ?

xdg-desktop-menu install in root mode gives the following problems:

xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found.

When I set the export XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=999 and run it again:

/tmp/xdg-desktop-menu install etm-PVSS-3.6.directory 
etm-PVSS_OnlineHelp_de-3.6.desktop

update_submenu etm-PVSS-3.menu
Install locations for *.menu file:
xdg_user_dir: /root/.config/menus/applications-merged
xdg_global_dir: /applications-merged
kde_user_dir:
kde_global_dir:
gnome_user_dir:
gnome_global_dir:
Updating /applications-merged/etm-PVSS-3.menu (install)
Files to list in etm-PVSS-3.menu: etm-PVSS_OnlineHelp_de-3.6.desktop
etm-PVSS_OnlineHelp_en-3.6.desktop
Install locations for *.directory files:
xdg_user_dir: /root/.local/share/desktop-directories
xdg_global_dir:
kde_user_dir:
kde_global_dir:
gnome_user_dir:
gnome_global_dir:
xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found.

=> it seems the filename containing "3.6" is parsed incorrectly, as it results 
in etm-PVSS-3.menu. Bug or Intention ?
=> it also creates /applications-merged

In user mode it works.

-- 
Best regards/Schöne Grüße

Martin

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