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

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Mar 22 21:08:27 UTC 2010


On 03/22/2010 04:24 PM, David Timms wrote:
> I think we might be looking at the inversion of that item, ie if it 
> isn't a gui app, is it allowed to have desktop files ?

I think it is fine for him to do that, especially given that these files
are only being used by the desktop browsers (e.g. nautilus and kde file
managers) and don't add noise to the desktop menus.

~spot


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