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Java webstart (sun-java6) are "Unable to create shortcut for MyApp(hostname)"

Bug #320362 reported by Geoffrey De Smet
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Bug Description

This might be caused by bug 253621, as I am on locale nl_BE, but that bug doesn't mention that there's an error message "unable to create shortcut for...", which makes me presume it's a different bug.

All our new applications are webstart based, but at the moment all our users use windows...

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Soltész András (soltesz-andras) wrote :

We also experience this problem.

It seems to be caused by WebStart not being able to handle locally named Desktop folders.

For example, with the Hungarian local in Jaunty, the Desktop folder is named Asztal.

If you create a link named as Desktop in your home folder and the link is named Desktop, the Webstart icons will be created correctly.

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Sourabh (sourabhsharma149) wrote :

I am not able to create soft lin javaws in /bin folder that causes oracle install to crash.
Even -f option doesn't work

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Konrad (konradmb) wrote :

I also experience this problem.
Creating /home/user/Desktop directory fixes that problem, but I must move shortcut to real desktop (Pulpit in polish)

Changed in sun-java6 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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