Bug#995628: qemu-system-data: desktop file is incomplete, remove it?

[Michael Tokarev]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 13:50:11 +0200 Laurent Bonnaud  wrote:


Package: qemu-system-data
Version: 1:6.1+dfsg-6
Severity: normal


Dear Maintainer,

when I start a KDE program I see the following error messages:

kf.service.services: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/qemu.desktop" has 
Type= "Application" but no Exec line
kf.service.sycoca: Invalid Service :  "/usr/share/applications/qemu.desktop"

The qemu.desktop file lacks a shell command, indeed.

In fact I do not see what command could be added there.  Qemu needs at least 
some options to do something useful.  The best solution would perhaps be to 
remove the qemu.desktop completely.


This turned out to be wrong. The .desktop file is needed for wayland-based
desktop environments to associate an icon name with a running application.
Without the .desktop file, some default "unknown" icon is used in the app
switcher and the like.  So .desktop file is here to stay.

/mjt

Bug#995628: qemu-system-data: desktop file is incomplete, remove it?

[Laurent Bonnaud]

Package: qemu-system-data
Version: 1:6.1+dfsg-6
Severity: normal


Dear Maintainer,

when I start a KDE program I see the following error messages:

kf.service.services: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/qemu.desktop" has 
Type= "Application" but no Exec line
kf.service.sycoca: Invalid Service :  "/usr/share/applications/qemu.desktop"

The qemu.desktop file lacks a shell command, indeed.

In fact I do not see what command could be added there.  Qemu needs at least 
some options to do something useful.  The best solution would perhaps be to 
remove the qemu.desktop completely.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 
'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- no debconf information

--
Laurent.