On 24.10.2014 20:22, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:10:28PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > >> currently xcowsay does not supply a desktop and menu file and no desktop >> and menu icons. Hence the game is not well integrated into the user's >> desktop environment. Please consider helping to improve the desktop >> integration of games in Debian. >> https://wiki.debian.org/Games/JessieReleaseGoal > > I don't think it makes sense to add a desktop file to xcowsay, given > that it isn't a game as such, but rather a toy[1]. > > xcowsay displays the messages that it gets in stdin: just running it > with no input isn't really useful.
Ok. Agreed. I thought xcowsay could be configured via a graphical user interface but apparently this is not the case. Since it also needs input files from users, a static start-up command would not be enough. > I'd consider it more like a utility than a game, but a utility that > fits the games session, a bit like the `filters` package. It's true that we don't have a separate section for such console toys, they are all listed under games. FYI, Xcowsay is also part of the games-toys metapackage now. Regards, Markus
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