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#1 2007-02-12 07:22:16

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Graphical packages missing .desktop files

I recently reported a 'bug' on Evince (not having a desktop file but being a graphical app). Now I think y'all agree, to be visibly installed, a graphical app needs a menu entry. Evince doesn't.

I filed a bug, the maintainer closed it saying there were already bug reports in the Gnome bugzilla. OK... He's right - i should have looked there. But why isn't the Arch package simply fixed then?
I mean: it's not that big a hassle to write your own tiny .desktop file for the time being and put it in the pkgbuild...

Same goes for the xchm package: no .desktop file, no application icon. Isn't this supposed to be standard?

Thanks for any enlightenment I can get on this.


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#2 2007-02-12 07:33:10

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Re: Graphical packages missing .desktop files

I would just refile it in Flyspray as a feature request.


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#3 2007-02-12 07:50:58

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Re: Graphical packages missing .desktop files

Thanks for the hint smile.


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#4 2007-02-12 20:56:43

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Re: Graphical packages missing .desktop files

I refered to two flyspray tasks and one upstream bugreport, all 3 specify that it's by design and that a viewer-only application is designed to be missing from the menus.

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