On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 04:17:31PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2025-07-04 13:35 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Package: xterm > > Version: 398-1 > > > > The xterm package provides *.desktop files, but it is not > > shown in Gnome's application window. > > Because xterm is installed on most desktops (as a dependency of the xorg > metapackage for instance), and Gnome packagers do no want to confuse > novice users with multiple terminal applications, so they blacklist > xterm.
actually, it's more than that. /etc/gnome/menus.blacklist lists more than 150 desktop files, intentionally excluding anything that GNOME may provide, including KDE, XFCE4, Vim (because after all, GNOME provides a text-editor). I don't see anything comparable in the other desktop environments. (I install all of the ones that I know about, for testing). > > This is not as expected. > > Different people have different expectations, see the discussion in > #645736. :-) -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net
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