Ding needs an icon -> .desktop file

[Thibaut Brandscheid]

Ding is a very useful graphical German-English translation dictionary that has no .desktop file – this must be changed for 12.04! Even it is not usable by the majority right now (you have to start it from terminal) it gets pretty high ranked reviews in the Ubuntu Software Center, it would be a shame not to provide Ding to a wider audience.

If you want I could write a .desktop file. As icon I would propose to use the'accessories-dictionary' icon - looks like a dictionary to me ;) and is shipped by default.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ding 1.7-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic-pae 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 6 01:16:51 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120227)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ding
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

When installing ding version 1.7-1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu Quantal, it does not add a menu item.

[starbuck (mpc4)]

See description of following bug report for information on how to fix the issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1031983

[Oliver Sauder (sao)]

Patch submitted to Debian so this can be fixed upstream.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=744276

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

This bug was fixed in the package ding - 1.7-3

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ding (1.7-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * 08_foreseeable: add missing "e" to "foreseeable" (Closes: #685809).
  * 09_seperation: typo: s/seperation/separation/ (Closes: #719823).
  * 10_Aour: typo: s/Aour/Your/ (Closes: #740878).
  * 11_desktop_file: Fixed installation of ding.desktop file. Thanks to
    Oliver Sauder (Closes: #744276).
  * Remove Encoding from desktop file, since UTF-8 is now the default.
  * Add keywords to desctop file.
  * Update to Standards-Version 3.9.5 (no changes).
  * 12_dont_set_locale: The explicit definition of LC_TYPE to de_DE.UTF8
    causes problems if the Linux installation uses another locale setting.
    (Closes: #492458).
  * Optimize dict-de-en Suggests for dict-client and dict-server.

 -- Roland Rosenfeld <email address hidden> Sun, 11 May 2014 15:00:52 +0200