On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 09:10 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 03/20/2010 06:14 AM, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > On Saturday 20 March 2010, David Timms wrote: > >> Hi, I am packaging the application tnef [1], where the reviewer has > >> queried whether I need to provide a desktop file. > >> > >> This is a little different from a normal GUI application desktop file. > >> The application is command line only. I have added a shellscript, and > >> some desktop files that cause nautilus and kde file managers to show > >> .dat files as having a potential open with tnef extract entry. > >> > >> So while I'm including .desktop files, they aren't in the menus. Is this > >> acceptable, packaging wise ? > > > > Sure, if there's nothing to put in menus that would be useful without a > > filename (or other non-static) argument. > > From: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Desktop_files > > If a package contains a GUI application, then it needs to also include a > properly installed .desktop file. For the purposes of these guidelines, > a GUI application is defined as any application which draws an X window > and runs from within that window. > > Does the tnef application meet that criteria? That's inverse logic though because he's including a .desktop file in a case where he doesn't have to. I don't see any justification for saying one can't ship one if one wants to. Jon. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
