Make a menu item for Irssi

[Shahar Or]

Binary package hint: irssi

Add a menu item for Irssi that opens a terminal and runs irssi.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 86dcece8395aae51e38cfed557ef1e48
CheckboxSystem: 5606fb5d476dcfd021a0181d012c8ef5
Date: Sun Jan 24 15:16:20 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: irssi 0.8.14-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=he_IL.UTF-8
 LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: irssi
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Would be nice to have.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Reported to the debian maintainers. You can track it and make comments at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566676

[Rhonda D'Vine (rhonda)]

Actually, irssi *does* have a menu file, below /usr/share/menu/irssi. It doesn't use the freedesktop files though, and I'm not completely convinced it should. It is a textbased application, and enabling the "Debian" menu subtree should be possible through installing the menu-xdg package. Also, given that the discussion wether the debian menu system or the freedesktop menu system is better/recommended to use I rather would like to stick with the old menu system.

Thanks for understanding. :)
Rhonda

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Given the feedback from the Debian Maintainer, and my own personal bias against adding .desktop files for CLI apps, I'm marking this wontfix. Those with interest in using the provided Debian menu may be interested in the very wide number of menu files for terminal applications available in the Debian menu after installing menu-xdg.

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

ah, thats good news!