CLI tools in Gnome Software?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Jan 3 05:05:16 UTC 2015


Richard Hughes wrote:
>> It seems that many command line utilities in Security spin can be
>> considered applications since security spin provides .desktop files and
>> icons for many of them!
> 
> No, we ignore any with the ConsoleOnly hint.

But why is an interactive TUI with a .desktop file not an application? Not 
only does it actually fit your own definition which you linked, but it also 
behaves like a GUI application. (The nicer ones even respond to mouse 
clicks!)

        Kevin Kofler



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