no desktop file to start game from the menu [beneath a steel sky/flight of the amazon queen not offered]

[Emmanuel Touzery]

in gnome-app-install, under the section "games", the games "beneath a steel sky" and "flight of the amazon queen" are not offered.
ScummVm is offered.
in the scummVm description in gnome-app-install the packages for those two games are mentionned but currently in dapper the only way to install those games is through synaptic or apt-get.
I think those games could show in the list in gnome-app-install and be installable straight from gnome-app-install.

Maybe the fact that they don't appear is because they don't ship a .desktop file in that case that could be a bug of those packages instead?

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Reassigned to the games packages. We could add a desktop file to gnome-app-install manually. But fixing this in the game packages would be the better solution.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Assigned to "motugames".

If we get desktop files for this this week we can probably add it to gnome-app-install, otherwise it will have to be dapper+1.

Cheers,
 MIchael

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Below is a .desktop file which validates and has everything but the correct Exec line. I'm not familiar with ScummVM so I didn't know what arguments to use - any ideas anyone?

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Beneath A Steel Sky
GenericName=Game
Comment=A science-fiction adventure game set in a bleak post-apocalyptic vision of the future
Type=Application
Exec=scummvm sky
Icon=beneath-a-steel-sky
Categories=AdventureGame;Game;RolePlaying;

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Also for Flight of the Amazon Queen, again with a non-functioning Exec line:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Flight of the Amazon Queen
GenericName=Game
Comment=Embark on a quest to rescue a kidnapped princess and in the process, discover the true sinister intentions of a suspiciously located Lederhosen company
Type=Application
Exec=scummvm queen
Icon=flight-of-the-amazon-queen
Categories=AdventureGame;Game;RolePlaying;

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks a lot for your effort, but I'm afraid this is too late for dapper. But I will add it after this and include a proper exec line. Sorry for that.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

No problem :)

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

OK, I have added the desktop files for both of these. It would be nice if we could come up with some icons. Thanks for your contributions!!

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Were you able to test a correct exec line? I'm afraid I didn't get any further.

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

Yep, seems to work. I stole it from the .menu file ;-) Thanks.

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

Successfully built in Edgy. Thank you. Especially to Phil for the .desktop files.