[wx-dev] wxGTK 2.8.0: strange error message under KDE

[Robin Dunn]

Andrew Trevorrow wrote:
> I recently switched to wxGTK 2.8.0 for our app (ansi, static, GTK+ 2.x build).
> One of our beta testers reports that every time the app starts up they
> get a warning dialog with this message:
> 
>    can't open file '/usr/share/applications/kde/AdobeReader.desktop'
>    (error 2: No such file or directory)
> 
> No such error occurs if I build the app using wxGTK 2.7.0.  Our app
> doesn't use PDF files so I'm baffled by the reference to AdobeReader.
> 
> Note that I don't see the error message, probably because I run the
> app under Gnome.  The beta tester uses KDE on a Debian system (not sure
> which version).
> 
> Does anybody know why this error occurs and how it might be avoided?
> Is the problem due to a bug in wxGTK 2.8.0 or does the beta tester
> need to fix a problem in their KDE desktop settings?  I'm a Linux
> novice so any help would be much appreciated.

Look at that pathname.  It's probably a symlink to a file that doesn't 
exist.


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