On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:11:34PM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> On 2013-10-27 21:15:40, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 07:38:16PM +0100, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> > > Package: mpv
> > > Version: 0.2.1-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > the package installs /usr/share/applications/mpv.desktop, which seems
> > > useless to me. When a user clicks the mpv entry in a start menu, nothing
> > > happens since mpv without any arguments just spits out some text on
> > > stdout. In my opinion a user probably expects something to pop up on the
> > > screen, e.g., to select a movie file to playback with mpv.
> > 
> > If I understand the *.desktop thing correctly, it is also used by the 
> > desktop
> > environment to decide which application should open a particular type of 
> > file,
> > and that's a pretty important part IMO.
> > 
> > I don't think that there's a way to make it not show up in menus though, so
> > it's an all or nothing thing I'm afraid.
> 
> You can use NoDisplay=true if you only want the mime type associations.

Well, mpv.desktop does use NoDisplay=true AFAICT... the plot thickens.

Cheers

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