macOS xdg-desktop-icon
Jim Douglas
jimdouglas at mac.com
Wed Oct 24 17:40:08 UTC 2018
With Oracle inexplicably ditching javaws in Java 11, and ending public updates of Java 8 in January, end users are desperately looking for a replacement…and IcedTea-Web is really the only viable option. In my testing here, it basically works; it reliably launches our customers’ existing JNLPs, giving them a path forward. But now that we’ve established that it basically works, our customer testers are focused on fine-grained deployment details, and they care a lot about those desktop icons.
I spent days trying to build <https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web> IcedTea-Web in macOS, but I had to eventually give up; I couldn’t get past the errors. I’ve been doing Windows & Mac testing with a build that Laurent Bourgès kindly provided <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2018-September/040118.html> to me. Since I have no ability to edit and build IcedTea-Web, I had to take a different approach; I put together the attached Mac-specific dropin replacement for the xdg-desktop-icon script, which works reasonably well in my testing here; it parses the .desktop file and generates a minimal macOS AppBundle corresponding to the JNLP parameters. I hope someone will find it useful, or even use it as the basis for integrating macOS desktop integration directly into IcedTea-Web.
Now I’m back to the Windows 10 system, which is also not creating the desktop icon. First, I always get this flood of permissions errors launching any JNLP; I have no idea what this is trying to tell me:
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Removing execute permissions on file C:\Users\Jim\.cache\icedtea-web\cache\4399\http\10.0.1.5\8888\basis\BBjBootstrap.jar.pack.gz.pack.gz.info.temp failed
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Removing execute permissions on file C:\Users\Jim\.cache\icedtea-web\cache\4402\http\10.0.1.5\8888\basis\BBjUtil.jar.pack.gz.pack.gz.info.temp failed
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Removing execute permissions on file C:\Users\Jim\.cache\icedtea-web\cache\4403\http\10.0.1.5\8888\basis\asm-6.2.1.jar.pack.gz.pack.gz.info.temp failed
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Removing execute permissions on file C:\Users\Jim\.cache\icedtea-web\cache\4405\http\10.0.1.5\8888\basis\JnlpExtIndex.jar.pack.gz.pack.gz.info.temp failed
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Removing execute permissions on file C:\Users\Jim\.cache\icedtea-web\cache\4406\http\10.0.1.5\8888\basis\webstart2166.jar.pack.gz.pack.gz.info.temp failed
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…then it fails to create the desktop icon, with a not very helpful stack trace:
Removing execute permissions on file C:\Users\Jim\.cache\icedtea-web\cache\4407\http\10.0.1.5\8888\basis\clouds\images\Demos.png.info.temp failed
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java.io.IOException: Cant create file C:\Users\Jim\.cache\icedtea-web\tmp\LaunchDock from launchdock.jnlp.desktop.temp
at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.util.FileUtils.createRestrictedFile(FileUtils.java:238)
at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.util.FileUtils.createRestrictedFile(FileUtils.java:164)
at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.util.XDesktopEntry.installDesktopLauncher(XDesktopEntry.java:361)
at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.util.XDesktopEntry.createDesktopShortcuts(XDesktopEntry.java:315)
at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.ApplicationInstance.addMenuAndDesktopEntries(ApplicationInstance.java:189)
at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.ApplicationInstance.initialize(ApplicationInstance.java:145)
at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.launchApplication(Launcher.java:530)
at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:943)
Do we expect IcedTea-Web to be creating desktop icons on Windows? Is there anything I can do to get it working?
> On Oct 16, 2018, at 12:33 AM, Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/15/18 7:51 PM, Jim Douglas wrote:
>> Is anyone else testing Icedtea-Web on macOS? In my testing, it doesn’t install a desktop icon
>
> Until recently, there was no usage of ITW on mac. It was know to "somehow work". No mac-interested
> developer ever worked on ITW. I personally do not have any mac knowledge, nor do I have any mac
> around to test.
>> because it apparently assumes that the Linux-centric xdg-desktop-icon utility is installed, but that
>> utility does not seem to work with macOS.
>
> Many parts, especially desktop integration needs if(mac) .. elseif(win) .. else {}... But only few
> have actually did at least if(win).
>
> If you have some knowledge abot mac desktop integration, please, contribute.
>
> The exception below should not be a show stopper. If it is, you can disable desktop integration -
> "never create".
>
> J.
>>
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-utils/
>>
>>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 2:08 PM, Jim Douglas <jimdouglas at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This doesn’t seem to be fatal, but it probably shouldn’t assume that xdg-desktop-icon exists in macOS:
>>>
>>> You are trying to get resource http://localhost:8888/favicon.ico but it is not in cache and could
>>> not be downloaded. Attempting to continue, but you may expect failure
>>> java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "xdg-desktop-icon": error=2, No such file or directory
>>> at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1128)
>>> at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1071)
>>> at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.util.XDesktopEntry.installDesktopLauncher(XDesktopEntry.java:385)
>>> at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.util.XDesktopEntry.createDesktopShortcuts(XDesktopEntry.java:315)
>>> at
>>> java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.ApplicationInstance.addMenuAndDesktopEntries(ApplicationInstance.java:189)
>>> at
>>> java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.ApplicationInstance.initialize(ApplicationInstance.java:145)
>>> at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher.launchApplication(Launcher.java:530)
>>> at java.desktop/net.sourceforge.jnlp.Launcher$TgThread.run(Launcher.java:943)
>>> Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
>>> at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.forkAndExec(Native Method)
>>> at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:339)
>>> at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:270)
>>> at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1107)
>>> ... 7 more
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Jiri Vanek
> Senior QE engineer, OpenJDK QE lead, Mgr.
> Red Hat Czech
> jvanek at redhat.com <mailto:jvanek at redhat.com> M: +420775390109 <tel:+420775390109>
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