[bt-devel] Dylon: My 1st contrib!

Jonathan Marsden jmarsden at fastmail.fm
Sat Jan 31 00:09:16 MST 2009


Dylon Edwards wrote:

> -Categories=X-Bible;X-Religion;Literature;Art;Education;Utility;KDE;QT
> +Categories=X-Bible;X-Religion;Literature;Art;Education;Utility;KDE;QT;

Cool; I noticed this yesterday when packaging up bibletime 3.6 ready for
Debian and Ubuntu!  You beat me to it in getting this back to the
bibletime developers.

Digging slightly deeper:

There is a tool in the desktop-file-utils package (on Debian and Ubuntu,
I'm not sure where it is packaged on other distributions) which checks
desktop files for issues; running it suggests that some of the other
lines could use editing or removing as well.  In particular, I removed:

SwallowExec=
SwallowTitle=
TerminalOptions=

to avoid some warnings from the debuild packaging system.  The official
standard for these things is at
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-1.0.html
as you have probably already discovered.

There is one other possible issue here, I think, which is that QT is not
a an officially valid Category, at least according to
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html which
seems to say that that it should be written as Qt.

I'll happily let you submit a diff for these changes too :)

Jonathan



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