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

Martin Gruner mg.pub at gmx.net
Sat Jan 31 02:46:02 MST 2009


Jonathan,

just uploaded your changes. Thanks.

mg

On Saturday 31 January 2009 08:09:16 Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> 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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