Package: vim-common Version: 2:8.0.1144-1 X-Debbugs-Cc:[email protected] Tags: patch
vim.desktop was added to Debian so that text files could easily be opened with vim. [1] However, this also made Vim show up in the applications menu which seems very odd for a terminal "app". It might not have been noticed by GNOME users on Debian since the Debian GNOME team has blacklisted vim.desktop from showing in GNOME's Activities Overview. [2] The Desktop Entry Spec says "NoDisplay means "this application exists, but don't display it in the menus". This can be useful to e.g. associate this application with MIME types, so that it gets launched from a file manager (or other apps), without having a menu entry for it (there are tons of good reasons for this, including e.g. the netscape -remote, or kfmclient openURL kind of stuff)." [3] Therefore, I think it would be very appropriate for vim.desktop to set NoDisplay=true. I confirmed that this hides Vim from the Activities Overview but it still shows up in the Open With dialog in GNOME. Note that I am not proposing setting NoDisplay=true for gvim which is closer to a traditional desktop app than vim. I am attaching a patch in my next email to implement my proposal. For completeness, I did propose this upstream and it was rejected (but maybe I'll try again later). [4] [1] https://bugs.debian.org/760512 [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-menus/debian/menus.blacklist?view=markup [3] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#recognized-keys [4] https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/2212 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
