.desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, The .desktop file distributed with the evince package (/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop) contains: Exec=evince %U meaning that the user's $PATH is taken into account. In general, taking $PATH into account is recommended, but IMHO, this should not be the case here, because of the foll

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:14:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: || The .desktop file distributed with the evince package || (/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop) contains: || ||Exec=evince %U || || meaning that the user's $PATH is taken into account. In general, || taking $PATH into ac

Re: Bug#489824: ITP: pllua -- PL/Lua is an implementation of Lua as a loadable procedural language for PostgreSQL

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:01:13PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > On that basis, a better synopsis would be: > > PL/Lua procedural language for PostgreSQL So the short description can start with a capital letter? -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has be

Comparison between Destkop entry and Debian menu specifications.

2008-07-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:12:23AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > XDG has less features than debian-menu currently does. For > instance, unless I'm mistaken it's not possible to specify in an XDG > .desktop file that a particular application is a curses or similar > application that requires an

Re: Bug#489824: ITP: pllua -- PL/Lua is an implementation of Lua as a loadable procedural language for PostgreSQL

2008-07-09 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:43:12AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On that basis, a better synopsis would be: >> >> PL/Lua procedural language for PostgreSQL > So the short description can start with a capital letter? Certainly, since PL is an acronym. I'd say "procedural language for Postg

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:46:22PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:14:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > || The .desktop file distributed with the evince package > || (/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop) contains: > || > ||Exec=evince %U > || > || meaning t

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:01:47PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:46:22PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:14:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > || The .desktop file distributed with the evince package > > || (/usr/share/applicati

ITP: Triangle -- Two-dimensional quality mesh generator and Delaunay triangulator

2008-07-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: triangle Version: 1.6 Author: Jonathan Richard Shewchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> License: non-free (distribution for fee prohibited) URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html Description: Two-dimensional quality mesh generator and Delaunay triangulat

Re: Bug#489824: ITP: pllua -- PL/Lua is an implementation of Lua as a loadable procedural language for PostgreSQL

2008-07-09 Thread Fernando Ike de Oliveira
Em Qua, 2008-07-09 às 15:35 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson escreveu: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:43:12AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On that basis, a better synopsis would be: > >> > >> PL/Lua procedural language for PostgreSQL > > So the short description can start with a capital letter?

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-07-09 14:46:22 +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:14:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > || The .desktop file distributed with the evince package > || (/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop) contains: > || > ||Exec=evince %U > || > || meaning that the user's

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 09 juillet 2008 à 13:14 +0200, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > 3. In config files, $PATH is generally used when one doesn't know >the location of the program, for flexibility, but this is not >the case here (see point 1). > > Here the choice of specifying an executable relative to

Re: Bug#489824: ITP: pllua -- PL/Lua is an implementation of Lua as a loadable procedural language for PostgreSQL

2008-07-09 Thread Ben Finney
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:01:13PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > On that basis, a better synopsis would be: > > > > PL/Lua procedural language for PostgreSQL > > So the short description can start with a capital letter? Sure, if it would mak

Bug#490135: RFP: fdmf -- find duplicate music files

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: fdmf Version : 0.0.9r Upstream Author : Kurt Rosenfeld * URL : http://w140.com/audio/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Perl Description :