[PATCH xcalc] Add xcalc.desktop file.
Matěj Cepl
mcepl at redhat.com
Fri Aug 12 15:03:28 PDT 2011
Dne 12.8.2011 22:34, Gaetan Nadon napsal(a):
> I haven't seen any other .desktop file. What is the motivation behind
> this patch?
Just to make life of package maintainers easier, and relieve them of
maintaining it as a distro-specific patch.
> There are 50+ X applications, why this one and not other ones?
There are not that many applications which should go to the menus (just
from the top of my head I think xedit, xeyes, xclock, xconsole?, xload?,
xmag, xman, probably few others).
> The commit text should indicate what happens on the user desktop, which
> desktop will pick this up,
> what happens on Mac, BSD like systems, Solaris, etc...
This is just described in
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
And briefly, it should add an item to the menus of the compliant desktop
environments (works with default Gnome, KDE, WindowMaker, and probably
few other ones). I guess Mac OS X (it would be cool if they did), and
Windows don't work with this.
And yes, it should be just put in the tarball (Alan is right, that's
piece missing, I will fix that), not installed per default.
Best,
Matěj
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