Are wine apps going to be the only ones missing categories?
As far as I can see the specs say that specifying categories is optional in .desktop files.
Shouldn't we be fixing .desktop files that are missing nodisplay or excluding them explicitly in the unity-place-applications.menu?
I don't like the idea of hiding apps that are implementing the spec correctly, especially as this seems to be the only user friendly way of launching apps in unity. This is especially pressing for wine where the .desktop files are in hidden directories.
I'm unaware of a contributors agreement - can you enlighten me?!
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From: "Mark Shuttleworth" <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, Sep 19, 2010 21:47
Subject: [Bug 635223] Re: Wine applications not listed in Unity Applications Place
To: <email address hidden>
Ah, I didn't realise that Wine apps don't have categories provided -
makes sense though if you think that they are just Windows apps, there's
no packaging. OK, perhaps a Wine category is needed then, to do this
properly. It should of course only show up if there are Wine apps installed.
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Status in Unity: Triaged
Status in Unity Applications Place: New
Status in “unity-place-applications” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Are wine apps going to be the only ones missing categories?
As far as I can see the specs say that specifying categories is optional in .desktop files.
Shouldn't we be fixing .desktop files that are missing nodisplay or excluding them explicitly in the unity-place- applications. menu?
I don't like the idea of hiding apps that are implementing the spec correctly, especially as this seems to be the only user friendly way of launching apps in unity. This is especially pressing for wine where the .desktop files are in hidden directories.
I'm unaware of a contributors agreement - can you enlighten me?!
----- Reply message -----
From: "Mark Shuttleworth" <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, Sep 19, 2010 21:47
Subject: [Bug 635223] Re: Wine applications not listed in Unity Applications Place
To: <email address hidden>
Ah, I didn't realise that Wine apps don't have categories provided -
makes sense though if you think that they are just Windows apps, there's
no packaging. OK, perhaps a Wine category is needed then, to do this
properly. It should of course only show up if there are Wine apps installed.
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Wine applications not listed in Unity Applications Place
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Bug description: applications
Binary package hint: unity-place-
Wine applications have .desktop and .menu files and show in Gnome application menu but cannot be found using Unity. e.g. I have
~/.local/ share/applicati ons/wine- Programs- Spotify. desktop menus/applicati ons-merged/ wine-Programs- Spotify. menu
~/.config/
ProblemType: Bug applications 0.2.18-0ubuntu1 ature: Ubuntu 2.6.35- 20.29-generic 2.6.35.4 applications
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity-place-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 10 19:46:53 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-place-
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