FS#797 - freedesktop.org interoperability is broken

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 19:57 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 20:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Aurelien Foret (aurelien.foret)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Apparently, because you put all the DEs on /opt, you break compatibility/interoperability between them as defined by freedesktop.org.

Result: when loading nautilus under XFce, nautilus can't find its theme icons etc.

KDE is going the freedesktop.org way as well, so you really need to find a way for each DE "to see" the other DE's data.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Damir Perisa (damir.perisa)
Sunday, 06 March 2005, 17:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  comming gnome (now in testing) will fix this
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 20:08 GMT
From Eugenia:

I had to symlink XFce's /opt/xfce4/share to /opt/gnome/share to fix the
problem.
And don't forget that Gnome 2.6 on Arch can't see all the fonts because it
seems some of the packages were not built with --prefix=/opt/gnome and so I
had to do yet another symlink of /opt/gnome/share/icons to /usr/share/icons
to get all the gnome icons on nautilus and gnome-panel...
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 20:09 GMT
Eugenia's solution may be a viable quick fix, but it won't work if KDE needs to be in there too.

Any ideas, Aurelien?
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 20:43 GMT
>Arch can't see all the fonts

I meant all the "themes and icons". :)
Comment by Mircea Bardac (IceRAM) - Thursday, 02 September 2004, 20:01 GMT
Might be solved by:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&id=1372
Comment by Aurelien Foret (aurelien.foret) - Friday, 29 October 2004, 16:30 GMT
The behavior should be greatly improved with the upcoming Xfce 4.2 release which now supports XDG dirs specs from freedesktop.org.
Let's wait and see.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 09:00 GMT
Gnome 2.9/10 currently supports XDG dir specs too, waiting for the final release in March :)
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Sunday, 06 March 2005, 15:16 GMT
BSD: this bug is now discussed on #archlinux-bsd

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