Le Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 03:50:27PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > > The freedesktop menu entries could be corrected by making them start a > > terminal, but I think that it goes against the vision of our GNOME > > maintainers. > > If there is a way to do so (which I do not know) then we should do > exactly this. I have no mind reading abilities and so I can not guess > the vision of our GNOME maintainers, but what else should be done for > command line programs than opening a terminal? The only way would be to > not provide a freedesktop entry at all and this should probably not be > the method of choice.
Hi Andreas, I had several discussion on debian-devel on that subject. Here are two links to such threads: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/07/msg00579.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/02/msg00388.html I think that the general conclusion is that, while the freedesktop menu is expected to be a bit selective in the applications it contains, our packages have a sufficiently specialised user base that we should make our own choices by ourselves :) Still, for the command-line programs, I tend to start a terminal and type them in there, instead of opening a terminal running them through a menu entry. In most of the cases, the files to analyse are not in the root of my home directory anyway. So I think that we should not have freedesktop entries that start a terminal. Since we have many more Debian menu entries doing this, I also think it would be consistent to keep them and add the missing ones. In any case, I think that the most important is to be consistent accross our packages. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
