Are wine apps going to be the only ones missing categories? As far as I can see the specs say that specifying categories is optional in .desktop files.
Shouldn't we be fixing .desktop files that are missing nodisplay or excluding them explicitly in the unity-place-applications.menu? I don't like the idea of hiding apps that are implementing the spec correctly, especially as this seems to be the only user friendly way of launching apps in unity. This is especially pressing for wine where the .desktop files are in hidden directories. I'm unaware of a contributors agreement - can you enlighten me?! ----- Reply message ----- From: "Mark Shuttleworth" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Sep 19, 2010 21:47 Subject: [Bug 635223] Re: Wine applications not listed in Unity Applications Place To: <[email protected]> Ah, I didn't realise that Wine apps don't have categories provided - makes sense though if you think that they are just Windows apps, there's no packaging. OK, perhaps a Wine category is needed then, to do this properly. It should of course only show up if there are Wine apps installed. -- Wine applications not listed in Unity Applications Place https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/635223 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in Unity: Triaged Status in Unity Applications Place: New Status in “unity-place-applications” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: unity-place-applications Wine applications have .desktop and .menu files and show in Gnome application menu but cannot be found using Unity. e.g. I have ~/.local/share/applications/wine-Programs-Spotify.desktop ~/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine-Programs-Spotify.menu ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: unity-place-applications 0.2.18-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Sep 10 19:46:53 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity-place-applications To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/635223/+subscribe -- Wine applications not listed in Unity Applications Place https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/635223 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
