On Saturday 07 August 2004 02:30 pm, Andrew G. Luyt wrote: > I have encountered this bug as well, and it seems only to affect > non-KDE applications. Reproducing the problem: > > Right click on the panel to bring up the context menu. Select > Add->Application Button->Debian->Apps->Net->Gaim (any non-KDE > application will have the same problem) > Right click on the newly-created button to bring up its context menu > and select Properties. > Click the icon, select a new one and click OK > The error message will be > "Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access to write > to /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/gaim.desktop" > > Other symptoms: chmod a+w > /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/*.desktop fixes the problem > temporarily, but the permissions are usually reset after an apt-get > update && apt-get upgrade and the problem reappears. > > Platform: > Debian Unstable i386 (updated August 7, 2004) > Kernel 2.6.7-1-k7 > libc6 2.3.2.ds1-15 > kicker 3.2.3-1
I don't know what the correct behavior is here - should kicker make a copy of the files and edit the copy? (If so, this is a kicker bug) or should changes be made to the system wide file, in which case the menu-xdg package should set looser permissions? As a more permanent workaround, to change permissions yourself in a way that will last across upgrades, see dpkg-statoverride. Though, from the man page it looks like you might need to change them a file at a time. Josh
