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Re: abiword 2.7.3 in diablo extras-devel

Nope. I almost never look in the Extras menu anyway.

Re: abiword 2.7.3 in diablo extras-devel

Ahh. Sort of like fixing a dashboard idiot light by covering it with some electrical tape?

Re: abiword 2.7.3 in diablo extras-devel

Yes! Just like this.

"I find it pretty and somewhat hypnotic..."

Re: abiword 2.7.3 in diablo extras-devel

I just checked my Extra... I confirm the presence of multiple Abiword icons, probably waiting to be enough to take over my N800... creepy... :D

It seems that every time the device is restarted a couple of new icons appear...

Re: abiword 2.7.3 in diablo extras-devel

To stop the invasion just edit

Code:

/home/user/.osso/menus/applications.menu

and erase all istances of

Code:

<Filename>abiword.desktop</Filename>

except one (leafpad is your friend).

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EDIT: the following step seems unnecessary: do it only if at this point your abiword clones haven't disappeared yet.
As root, do

Code:

update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications/hildon

.
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And this zaps them dead.

Mutant abi icons could show again, though, since there might be some evil abi-replicating code into that binary :)

Re: abiword 2.7.3 in diablo extras-devel

Good advice debernardis (minchia siculo sei? non ci feci mai caso :D), not that replicated icons is a big deal, the real problem is the "self-replicating process" :D

Re: abiword 2.7.3 in diablo extras-devel

Quote:

Originally Posted by debernardis (Post 301049)

To stop the invasion just edit

Code:

/home/user/.osso/applications.menu

and erase all istances of

Code:

<Filename>abiword.desktop</Filename>

Just for future clarification, applications.menu is in

Code:

/home/user/.osso/menus/applications.menu

Quote:

Originally Posted by debernardis (Post 301049)

then, as root, do

Code:

update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications/hildon

. And this zaps them dead.

Unexpectedly, that not only took care of the multiple Abiword menu items, it also zapped my entire menu dead. It was totally empty. Happily, ranasing, suggested to run:

cp /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu /home/user/.osso/menus/applications.menu

This seems to rebuilt my menu. All the additional apps now show up in extras, but this is easily re-categorized. Interestingly all the icons are now BIG rather than some being small. So now more easily seen. (debernardis, since you're here, thanks for the trick of saving .doc files as .pdf in Abiword, and then using lpr to send to the printer. It works great in a pinch).

Re: abiword 2.7.3 in diablo extras-devel

Lol, all it is is that there are two desktop files. :p

One is /usr/share/applications/abiword.desktop and the other is /usr/share/applications/hildon/abiword.desktop

I just deleted /usr/share/applications/abiword.desktop and all was well.

Re: abiword 2.7.3 in diablo extras-devel

@HowHH sorry for the mistaken filepath - I'm going to edit that; I'm happy though that your menu resumed, maybe there was some problem in editing application.menu and the update-desktop-database command got screwed.

@qwerty12 I had two .desktop files too, but erasing one didn't do the trick - had to zap the multiple instances in applications.menu in order to get rid of the multiple icons.

Re: abiword 2.7.3 in diablo extras-devel

Worked for me. hildon-desktop doesn't rescan /usr/share/desktop/applications/ until you reboot. It does, however, rescan /usr/share/desktop/applications/hildon/ w/out rebooting.