[Fedora-packaging] Packages containing GUI applications must include a %{name}.desktop

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 03/20/2010 06:14 AM, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Saturday 20 March 2010, David Timms wrote:
>> Hi, I am packaging the application tnef [1], where the reviewer has
>> queried whether I need to provide a desktop file.
>>
>> This is a little different from a normal GUI application desktop file.
>> The application is command line only. I have added a shellscript, and
>> some desktop files that cause nautilus and kde file managers to show
>> .dat files as having a potential open with tnef extract entry.
>>
>> So while I'm including .desktop files, they aren't in the menus. Is this
>> acceptable, packaging wise ?
> 
> Sure, if there's nothing to put in menus that would be useful without a 
> filename (or other non-static) argument.

From: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Desktop_files

If a package contains a GUI application, then it needs to also include a
properly installed .desktop file. For the purposes of these guidelines,
a GUI application is defined as any application which draws an X window
and runs from within that window.

Does the tnef application meet that criteria?

~spot