[Bug 1693089] Re: Cinnamon is not a recognized Desktop Environment before Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[Jeremy Bicha]

** Description changed:

- Note to Sponsors
- ----------------
- Since Precise is still partially open, let's see if the Release/SRU Teams are willing to accept this SRU for Precise ecause of the Impact there.
+ Note
+ ----
+ Yes, I know precise is basically unsupported but it might be nice to fix Travis here anyway.
  
  Impact
  ------
  Cinnamon (and the less popular EDE and LXQt) desktops are not recognized by desktop-file-validate in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 14.04 LTS.
  
  This is a problem because the very popular Travis service for continuous
  integration (CI) on platforms like Github still uses 12.04 LTS. Travis
  does not offer a 16.04 platform and the 14.04 platform is still only in
  beta. This caused this pull request to fail its CI check:
  
  https://travis-ci.org/zdohnal/system-config-printer/builds/222023750
  https://github.com/zdohnal/system-config-printer/pull/41
  
  This SRU adds these Desktop Environments to the recognized list for
  14.04 LTS: Cinnamon, EDE, LXQt.
  
  If accepted, 12.04 LTS will also add TDE.
  
  Test Case
  ---------
  1. Save the following lines in a file named calc.desktop
  
  [Desktop Entry]
  Name=Calculator
  Exec=gnome-calculator
  Icon=accessories-calculator
  Type=Application
  OnlyShowIn=Cinnamon;LXQt;EDE;
  Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;Calculator;
  
  2. Run
  desktop-file-validate calc.desktop
  
  The command should complete with no error message.
  
  A failure would look something like:
  calc.desktop: error: value "Cinnamon;LXQt;EDE;" for key "OnlyShowIn" in group "Desktop Entry" contains an unregistered value "Cinnamon"; values extending the format should start with "X-"
  
  Regression Potential
  ---------------------
  This only adds a few entries to the list of registered desktop environments.
  
  This change is backported from desktop-file-utils 0.23 which is in
  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

** Changed in: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

** Changed in: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

** Patch removed: "desktop-file-utils-lp1693089-precise.patch"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desktop-file-utils/+bug/1693089/+attachment/4882254/+files/desktop-file-utils-lp1693089-precise.patch

** Patch removed: "desktop-file-utils-lp1693089-trusty.patch"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desktop-file-utils/+bug/1693089/+attachment/4882255/+files/desktop-file-utils-lp1693089-trusty.patch

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Title:
  Cinnamon is not a recognized Desktop Environment before Ubuntu 16.04
  LTS

Status in desktop-file-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in desktop-file-utils source package in Precise:
  In Progress
Status in desktop-file-utils source package in Trusty:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Note
  ----
  Yes, I know precise is basically unsupported but it might be nice to fix Travis here anyway.

  Impact
  ------
  Cinnamon (and the less popular EDE and LXQt) desktops are not recognized by desktop-file-validate in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 14.04 LTS.

  This is a problem because the very popular Travis service for
  continuous integration (CI) on platforms like Github still uses 12.04
  LTS. Travis does not offer a 16.04 platform and the 14.04 platform is
  still only in beta. This caused this pull request to fail its CI
  check:

  https://travis-ci.org/zdohnal/system-config-printer/builds/222023750
  https://github.com/zdohnal/system-config-printer/pull/41

  This SRU adds these Desktop Environments to the recognized list for
  14.04 LTS: Cinnamon, EDE, LXQt.

  If accepted, 12.04 LTS will also add TDE.

  Test Case
  ---------
  1. Save the following lines in a file named calc.desktop

  [Desktop Entry]
  Name=Calculator
  Exec=gnome-calculator
  Icon=accessories-calculator
  Type=Application
  OnlyShowIn=Cinnamon;LXQt;EDE;
  Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;Calculator;

  2. Run
  desktop-file-validate calc.desktop

  The command should complete with no error message.

  A failure would look something like:
  calc.desktop: error: value "Cinnamon;LXQt;EDE;" for key "OnlyShowIn" in group "Desktop Entry" contains an unregistered value "Cinnamon"; values extending the format should start with "X-"

  Regression Potential
  ---------------------
  This only adds a few entries to the list of registered desktop environments.

  This change is backported from desktop-file-utils 0.23 which is in
  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

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