Am 01.09.2011 15:50, schrieb Andreas Tille: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 10:25:37PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Indeed, fastdnaml, tree-puzzle, and the fastlink programs do not start when >> launched from the freedesktop menu in GNOME, and therefore probably in KDE >> and >> XFCE as well (not tested). > These programs are simple command line programs so what exactly should > we expect? The freedesktop menu should just open a terminal and call > the program - nothing else. Is there a way to implement this? > >> Since the programs can still be started from the command line, I have >> downgraded the severity of the respective bugs. >> >> The freedesktop menu entries could be corrected by making them start a >> terminal, but I think that it goes against the vision of our GNOME >> maintainers. > If there is a way to do so (which I do not know) then we should do > exactly this. I have no mind reading abilities and so I can not guess > the vision of our GNOME maintainers, but what else should be done for > command line programs than opening a terminal? The only way would be to > not provide a freedesktop entry at all and this should probably not be > the method of choice. > >> I propose to replace the freedesktop menu entries by Debian menu entries >> similar to the one of boxshade for instance. The Debian menu can be made >> accessible in GNOME by configuring the freedesktop menu. > I think having a Debian menu entry for these programs makes sense anyway. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > Oh, sorry have forgotten to send it to all.
Hi Andreas, in reply to: "These programs are simple command line programs so what exactly should we expect? The freedesktop menu should just open a terminal and call the program - nothing else. Is there a way to implement this?" It may be helpful to look at biolinux6 where it is implemented. (Also with icons for all programs in the GNOME menu: Well a standard icon, but there are no free spaces). Greetings melchiaros -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org