Bug#709304: viewmol: broken menu entry in Gnome (directory $HOME not found)

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package: viewmol
Version: 2.4.1-18
Severity: important
User: debia...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: debian-edu
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

I discovered this while testing viewmol in Debian Edu Wheezy. When
trying to select viewmol from the science menu in Gnome, a popup show up
with (translated from norwegian by me) this content:

Could not start "viewmol"
Error changing to the directory "$HOME" (No such file or directory)
[Close]

The cause is this field in the viewmol.desktop file:

Path=$HOME

When I remove this line, the program start as it should. Please remove
that line from the desktop file. Tagging the bug patch as the fix is to
remove one line from a text file, even though I did not provide the diff
to do so.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-486
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages viewmol depends on:
ii lesstif2 1:0.95.2-1.1
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 8.0.5-4
ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 8.0.5-4
ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-1
ii libpython2.7 2.7.3-6
ii libtiff5 4.0.2-6
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxi6 2:1.6.1-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.1-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1
ii python 2.7.3-4

viewmol recommends no packages.

Versions of packages viewmol suggests:
ii openbabel 2.3.1+dfsg-4
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none>

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[Petter Reinholdtsen]

I tested the viewmol menu entry in KDE, and here it worked. So it is
Gnome not understanding Path=$HOME. No idea if it is according to the
specification or not. Perhaps the problem is with Gnome and not
viewmol?

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen