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

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Mar 22 21:22:09 UTC 2010


On 03/22/2010 05:08 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 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.

And by him, I mean you. :) Or anyone. :)

~spot


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