<begin personal viewpoint that may or may not reflect the authors of Xastir>
If Xastir was intended to be distributed as a binary then I could see the value of some sort of integration file. But it is only distributed as source code unless someone builds and distributes a binary independent of the CSV site. Any binary distributions of Xastir are therefore the responsibility of the person who built and distributed it, not the CVS source tree. <end of personal viewpoint> In addition, if I was able to find the right documentation regarding a .desktop file, there isn't any way to launch the executable inside a terminal window and have that window hang around after Xastir ends. Xastir outputs many of its diagnostic messages to the terminal when running so anything that just runs the binary inside a hidden process is useless for understanding any errors that might occur. Dave KD7MYC -----Original Message----- From: xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Suprin Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 18:00 Pardon my late jumping in on this topic, but my understanding was the .desktop file is supposed to be desktop agnostic. Unity, KDE, and gnome all honor them. I have not checked on other desktops. _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir