On Thursday, September 15, 2016 13:22:33 Jens Reyer wrote: > On 15.09.2016 09:21, Shawn Sörbom wrote: > > Hi > > I have run into a few projects lately that don't include .desktop files > > but > > should. my usual approach to handle this is to write a patch with quilt > > that writes a .desktop file to the project's root directory, then add a > > corresponding line to the debian/[package].install file. I know this > > approach works, but is it the "right" way? Does it matter? > > There's also the command desktop-file-install (in the optional package > desktop-file-utils) which validates and installs the desktop file. I'd > use that command at least once for the validation. > > For installation in Debian it is unnecessary (Debian policy 9.6 tells us > that for installing it is not necessary because of dpkg triggers. > Further I found that at least in Gnome manually copying (no dpkg) to > /usr/share/applications has an immediate effect). > > Still upstream might be interested in that (not sure). > > > A quick look to sources.debian.net shows a clear preference for simply > installing desktop files: > > .desktop in debian/*install: 95 pages of results [1] > desktop-file-install in debain/rules: 2 results [2] > > [1] > https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path%3A%2Fdebian%2F.*install+.*deskto > p+ > > [2] > https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path%3A%2Fdebian%2Frules+desktop-file > -install+ > > Greets > jre
Thanks all, This helps alot. I suspect this is happening in packages that aren't primarily built on freedesktop.org compliant environments because some of the projects do have icons, but no .desktop and no cmake/autoconf installation rules for it...weird. --Shawn
