Link creation not working _properly_ under 2.6 kernel?

[Tom Spear]

On 3/19/07, Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
> Tom Spear wrote:
> > On 3/19/07, Tom Spear <speeddymon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 3/19/07, Tom Spear <speeddymon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > On 3/16/07, Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
> >> > > > Tom Spear wrote:
> >> > > > > I did some more checking into this just now.  I'm not sure why
> >> or how,
> >> > > > > but when I installed Worms 2, it installed the menu entries
> >> properly.
> >> > > > > So I uninstalled WinRAR and reinstalled it.  This time it
> >> created a
> >> > > > > menu entry for WinRAR under the wine folder in the menu, but
> >> it isnt a
> >> > > > > subfolder, like it should be and the other icons that should
> >> be in the
> >> > > > > menu aren't there.  It appears that the winrar installer may
> >> be doing
> >> > > > > something that other installers dont do....
> >> > > > After install is finished you did run 'wineboot' right? As most
> >> > > > installers create icons _first_ before anything else is installed.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Anyone know of any debug messages I should run to try to
> >> narrow down
> >> > > > > the problem?
> >> > > > menubuilder would be helpfull. With the bug # where you should
> >> send all
> >> > > > this information of course.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Vitaliy
> >> > > >
> >> > I just uninstalled 0.9.32 (using the make directory for 0.9.32) and
> >> > pulled and installed 0.9.33, removed ~/.wine, and drive_c as well as
> >> > my desktop icons, and menu icons.
> >> >
> >> > On an unrelated note, oddly enough wine prompted me to install gecko,
> >> > but when I said yes it did not install it and instead tried to
> >> > initialize the one from my 0.9.32 install, which wasnt there...
> >> >
> >> > So anyways I get it all installed, run wineprefixcreate and winecfg,
> >> > switch to my home directory, run wine with WINEDEBUG=+menubuilder
> >> > ./wrar362.exe and install it.
> >> >
> >> > The Desktop icon appears like usual, but still no menu icons.  So I
> >> > run WINEDEBUG=+menubuilder wineboot and still get no menu icons.  So,
> >> > thinking that maybe the K Menu just needed to refresh, I rebooted the
> >> > machine, and STILL get no icons..  So I looked into the
> >> > drive_c/Program\ Files/WinRAR directory, and again there is the folder
> >> > WinRAR (/mnt/d/Program\ Files/WinRAR/WinRAR) with all of the icons in
> >> > it.. So I am still having my icons created in the Program files
> >> > directory..
> >> >
> >> > Im taking a look into menubuilder now to see if I can find anything
> >> > and will post back once the site is back up (which will be about the
> >> > time you read this).  By that time I will also have a bug # (since I
> >> > cant very well create a bug with bugzilla down too)..  The full
> >> > +menubuilder trace is attached with comments inside the file, and the
> >> > trace will also be attached to the bug for future reference..
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> > Tom
> >> >
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> To add a bit more info, I just retried, again cleaning everything out
> >> and rebuilding the environment with wineprefixcreate and winecfg.
> >> This time however I created a symlink from
> >> /mnt/d/windows/profiles/speeddy/Start\ Menu to
> >> ~/.local/share/applications
> >>
> >> One of the .lnk files was put in the right place this time, and then
> >> when I ran wineboot, it created the wine folder and the main shortcut
> >> based off of that.
> >>
> >> It seems (looking at my trace) that it's failing around line 917 (in
> >> InvokeShellLinker), which basically checks the location of the lnk
> >> file and if it isnt in a known location, such as Desktop, Start Menu,
> >> Startup or the common version of such, then it fails and spits a warn.
> >>  The odd thing is that that function should return a relative path
> >> Assuming that my hunch is correct, if I comment out that part of the
> >> call, then it should create the shortcuts in the proper location.  Of
> >> course this would only work because I manually created the symlink for
> >> Start Menu earlier, due to the next part which checks to see if the
> >> links are under the start menu or desktop
> >>
> >> The reason I see this failing is not due to a bug in the menubuilder
> >> but due to a bug somewhere else in wine that causes the folder that
> >> should go into the Start Menu to be put into Program Files\WinRAR..
> >> So IMHO this bug is somewhere else.  I'll try running with +file and
> >> see what I can come up with.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
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> >>
> > OK finally found the culprit!
> >
> > Looks like the WinRAR installer is looking for the Start Menu and
> > Start Menu\Programs..  Found it with the +file trace.  If those don't
> > exist then it defaults to installing into.... Program Files\WinRAR.
> >
> > So I now have two questions:
> >
> > 1) Why was the Start Menu left out of wine's first
> > boot/wineprefixcreate and left out of the winecfg dialogs?  I mean was
> > it just an oversight or was there a specific reason, because I
> > honestly dont know or understand.
> It does exist here:
> /home/vitaliy/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/vitaliy/Start Menu/Programs
> and
> /home/vitaliy/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/All Users/Start Menu/Programs
>
> >
> > 2) Is the menu location (~/.local/share/applications) pretty much
> > universal?  In other words IF a patch were submitted to add Start Menu
> See: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html#paths
>
> > creation under windows\profiles, would it require detection of the
> > menu location, or (in the case that it is nearly universal) could it
> > just be statically coded?
> You talking about two totally separate things:
> 1. Windows' "Start Menu" location
> 2. XOrg's location for the menu entries.
>
> Vitaliy.
>
No I'm not.  Apparently wine is broken in the way that it handles
making links anyways, because if you look in winecfg with a clean
~/.wine you see Desktop points to ~/Desktop which is not good.  The
reason this is not good is because when a user installs a program they
get 2 icons, one is the lnk file that is used in windows (useless in
wine/linux for launching programs), and the other is the .desktop
file.

So apparently what wine needs is to have a central location to store
lnk files that is not so visible, and then it needs to make all of the
.desktop files (both for the desktop and for the xorg menu entries)
from those lnk files.

See thread "Menubuilder fix found" and the bug linked at the top of
that email for all of the info needed for someone that knows the code
to make a patch..

-- 
Thanks

Tom

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