On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 08:01:34PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > >>>> I don't know why the other package includes goldendict's > >>>> desktop/icons. > >>>> I think that it should be fixed in app-install-data. > >> > >>> You are installing a file into app-install-data's private > >>> directory. app-install-data collects all desktop files > >>> from /usr/share/applications and icons in the archive; that > >>> is used by higher-level tools like Software Center to display > >>> graphical applications available in Debian. > >> > >> Ok, I'll add Conflicts section into my debian/control. > > > No, drop the file. Applications install their desktop files into > > /usr/share/applications > > which application uses the directory? > Theese files rather strange. I don't understand at all what are they > needed for. > Ok I'll remove goldendict.desktop file.
When you open the Software Center (shipped in software-center) it shows a list of all graphical applications, together with the icons and descriptions. You can then install applications in a nicer (more end-user oriented) way. app-install-data ships the desktop files so that software-center knows which applications are available in the archive and what icons they have. Other applications use the files to find out which packages support a given MIME type, so when you try to open a file with no associated application, you can be shown a list of all applications supporting that file type and easily install the one you'd like to use. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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