> On 11 Feb 2025, at 15:07, Matthias Klumpp <m...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Am Di., 11. Feb. 2025 um 14:59 Uhr schrieb Christoph Schmidt-Hieber
> <chris...@gmx.de>:
>>
>>> On 11 Feb 2025, at 14:47, Matthias Klumpp <m...@debian.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am Di., 11. Feb. 2025 um 10:32 Uhr schrieb Christoph Schmidt-Hieber
>>> <chris...@gmx.de>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 11 Feb 2025, at 09:34, Christoph Schmidt-Hieber <chris...@gmx.de>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Apparently the icons are supposed to be in xpm format:
>>>>> https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?packages=stimfit
>>>>>
>>>>> Should I prepare a new package to address this? If so I probably need to
>>>>> bump the version number yet again because it will affect the source
>>>>> distribution?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Fixed:
>>>> https://github.com/neurodroid/stimfit/commit/6223e6aa
>>>>
>>>> Only the icons for the menu entry are concerned. The other icons remain in
>>>> png format.
>>>
>>> Yeah, XPM icons would have been a bad choice for the desktop-entry
>>> file. Do you actually use the menu? Because I am not aware of anything
>>> in Debian anymore that uses the old menu stuff anymore, and the
>>> Lintian warning "command-in-menu-file-and-desktop-file" advises
>>> removing the menu stuff... I think it's okay to keep both, but, if you
>>> can have less to maintain, you may actually just stick with the
>>> desktop-entry file, everything reads that.
>>
>> Not even sure what the desktop I use is called, but it has an entry
>> “Applications”
>> in the top left corner where I can find stimfit. I suppose that’s the menu
>> entry?
>> What would happen with that entry if I remove the menu stuff?
>
> Hmm, could that be MATE maybe? Or GNOME in classic mode?
> KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon, LXQt, LXDE, MATE, Budgie all don't even
> support the menu anymore for a long time. It is still supported by
> some window managers, but all of those also usually have desktop-entry
> support (or window-manager users just launch stuff via command instead
> of clicking through a menu).
>
> Try removing the menu, I'd bet it makes no difference to your desktop
> as long as the .desktop file is still there...
> (unless you are a window-manager user maybe)
Got it, addressed in
https://github.com/neurodroid/stimfit/commit/3a678c99
