Package: beagle Version: 0.2.1 Attached is my patch from Ubuntu to include an autostart .desktop file for beagled. I am unclear whether or not this is supported as-is prior to Gnome 2.14. We can track that here, and wait until 2.14 hits unstable if nessecary.
A quick google indicates that previous Gnome versions supported autostart, but in $prefix/gnome/autostart, rather than /etc/xdg/autostart.
diff -ruN beagle-0.2.1/debian/beagled.desktop beagle-0.2.3/debian/beagled.desktop --- beagle-0.2.1/debian/beagled.desktop 1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500 +++ beagle-0.2.3/debian/beagled.desktop 2006-03-18 06:44:41.000000000 -0500 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[Desktop Entry] +Encoding=UTF-8 +Name=Beagle Search Tool +Comment=Index files on your desktop +Icon=system-search +Exec=beagled +Terminal=false +Type=Application +Categories= +OnlyShowIn=GNOME; +X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME +X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=beagle +X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general +X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true diff -ruN beagle-0.2.1/debian/rules beagle-0.2.3/debian/rules --- beagle-0.2.1/debian/rules 2006-03-18 06:41:20.000000000 -0500 +++ beagle-0.2.3/debian/rules 2006-03-18 07:01:46.000000000 -0500 @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ fi; ) rm -rf $(MONO_SHARED_DIR)/.wapi + rm -rf $(CURDIR)/beagle/etc/xdg rm -rf debian/patched @@ -82,6 +83,9 @@ $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp + # Install autostart desktop file for beagled + mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/beagle/etc/xdg/autostart + cp $(CURDIR)/debian/beagled.desktop $(CURDIR)/debian/beagle/etc/xdg/autostart dh_install -a --sourcedir=debian/tmp find debian/beagle debian/python-beagle -name '*.a' -delete
