2015-09-05 3:49 GMT+02:00 Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org>: > [...] > > 2. In addition to those changes, the Technical Committee resolves > > that packages providing a .desktop file shall not also provide a > > menu file for the same application. > > That's good idea in general. I hope lintian warning should come soon. > > This reminds me some DE dependent .desktop file. Is there any best > practice how to do it for Debian? KDE app not showing up on GNOME and > vice versa. How to decide how much .desktop data are NotShowIn for what > environment? >
In general: Do not use NotShowIn/OnlyShowIn for most applications. There are only a few areas where it is actually useful, and this is almost exclusively configuration tools specific to one desktop environment. > Another question: Is there any list of DE names supporting .desktop > file? Whitelisting with "OnlyShowIn" entry requires such list. > You mean the list of registered desktop environments? Take a look at http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html#onlyshowin-registry > Maybe we shoyld recommend explicit black list using "NotShowIn" entry > over whitelisting with "OnlyShowIn" entry. > Why that? OnlyShowIn makes usually much more sense, but in general it heavily depends on the case which of the keys makes the most sense. Cheers, Matthias -- Debian Developer | Freedesktop-Developer I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/
