On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:21:16PM +0200, melchiaros wrote:
> > "These programs are simple command line programs so what exactly should
> > we expect? The freedesktop menu should just open a terminal and call
> > the program - nothing else. Is there a way to implement this?"
>
> It may be helpful to look at biolinux6 where it is implemented.
I tried a comparison
$ diff -u fastdnaml.desktop_biolinux fastdnaml.desktop_debian
--- fastdnaml.desktop_biolinux 2008-08-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0200
+++ fastdnaml.desktop_debian 2009-09-04 14:09:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
[Desktop Entry]
+Version=1.0
+Terminal=false
+Exec=fastDNAml
Name=fastDNAml
-Comment=fastDNAml
-Exec=/usr/local/bin/fastDNAml
-Encoding=UTF-8
-Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/dna.png
-Terminal=true
+GenericName=Phylogenetic tree construction
+GenericName[en]=Phylogenetic tree construction
+Comment=Tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of DNA sequences
+Comment[en]=Tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of DNA sequences
Type=Application
-Categories=Bioinformatics;
+Categories=Biology;Science;Education;
and tried to set the obvious difference
Terminal=true
in the Debian desktop file which just opened a terminal. Would you
consider this a fix for the problem reported? Regarding severity I
would call this at best minor if not wishlist. The rationale behind
this opinion of mine is that I can not really imagine that anybody
honestly will start a command line program that way and then tries to
input full path to the data he want to process with this program. I
admit that I'm not a user of fastDNAml - but I would strongly advise
not to use the program in this manner.
In my opinion the only reasonable thing to do in the menu is to fire up
a documentviewer / browser and *teach* people how to reasonably use
command line programs like this. (I actually implemented this way in
the Debian Menu system for CLI programs in the Blends framework.)
> (Also with icons for all programs in the GNOME menu: Well a standard
> icon, but there are no free spaces).
Having some kind of a standard icon for such programs - possibly using
some common icon in the metapackage and linking to it might make some
sense.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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