On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 14:55, Volker Wysk <pf3@...> wrote:
> Hello
>
> The synaptic package manager comes with two .desktop files:
>
> /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop
>
> /usr/share/applications/synaptic-kde.desktop
>
> The first one contains:
>
> NotShowIn=KDE;
>
> The second one:
>
> OnlyShowIn=KDE;
>
> Calling synaptic in the application menu calls the first one (the two
> program names/menu entries are identical). A broken root password entry box
> appears - the path of the executable which should be called with root
> privileges is empty.
>
> I'm wondering if the NotShowIn/OnlyShowIn directives are the cause of the
> problem. I've experimented in adding "Trinity;" to "KDE;", but without
> success.
>
> Does anyone know what this means?
>

That just tells the XDG menu system (your menus) where to show the
corresponding desktop entries.
We use "KDE", not "Trinity" at the moment.

-- 
later, Robert Xu