omnotebook.desktop leads to corrupted start menu under Lubuntu

[Rüdiger Franke]

Installing OpenModelica under Lubuntu 14.10 with:

sudo apt-get install openmodelica

leads to a corrupted start menu in lxpanel. After some trial&error and re-installations, finally a newline in the Comment of the desktop entry for OMNotebook turned out to be the reason:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=OMNotebook
GenericName=Physical modeling and simulation tool
Comment=An open-source software tool for an electronic notebook\nsupporting Modelica.
TryExec=OMNotebook
Exec=OMNotebook %f
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/OMNotebook_icon.svg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Development;Education;Science;Math;
MimeType=text/x-onb;application/x-omnotebook;

Can you possibly remove the \n from the Comment?

[Martin Sjölund]

​https://github.com/OpenModelica/OpenModelicaBuildScripts Sounds like a bug in lxpanel though.

[rfranke@…]

It might indeed be a bug in lxpanel. On the other hand side it is generally a good idea to separate contents from formatting. LXPanel, for instance, shows the Comments in tool tips for the menu items. In the case of OMNotebook, LXPanel decides on its own to break the line as follows:

An open-source software tool for an
electronic notebook supporting Modelica.

[Adeel Asghar]

I already removed the \n from comment. Just waiting for Martin to merge it. ​https://github.com/OpenModelica/OpenModelicaBuildScripts/pulls