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

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sat Mar 20 10:14:43 UTC 2010


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.


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