On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:24:58 -0800 Ben Wong <bugs.debian....@wongs.net>
wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
Hello,
[...]
>
> It turns out that some part of Gnome is creating a *second* desktop
> file which disables the first one by setting NoDisplay = True. This is
> extremely frustrating and unnecessary. The file is
> /usr/share/gnome/applications/debian-xterm.desktop
>
> I would like to tell you which part of Gnome is the culprit, but
> `dpkg -S` on the file says it doesn't belong to any packages.
>
> I can understand that certain distributions derived from Debian —
> those which believe minimalism equates to simplicity — may wish to
> hide "redundant" functionality like `xterm`. However, it doesn't make
> sense to hide xterm from Debian users. And if it did, it certainly
> should not be implemented in such a hard to discover way.
[...]
The preferred solution to fix this is to modify the
/etc/gnome/menus.blacklist (that file controls the mechanism applying
the blacklisting) and then run the gnome-menus-blacklist command.
There is not real consensus in the team about changing this ATM
Kind regards,
Laurent Bigonville
