Bug#990637: Why do marble have several .desktop files?
Am Di., 6. Juli 2021 um 23:02 Uhr schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen : > > [Sune Stolborg Vuorela] > > I hope this is sufficient response to "is there a good reason", and I > > think the script you use should be adapted to work with this pattern. > > Note, the script I use operate on the appstream data set, so the fix > need to be done in the input system for appstream, not in my script. Or > in marble. :) Nah, AppStream is fine - it's just a misconception that AppStream would work on all desktop files - it interacting with desktop-files is mostly a convenience feature with limited applicability. The MetaInfo files are the actual true source for metadata. If a software ships addons, upstream needs to provide matching addon AppStream component definitions (see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Quickstart-Addons.html ) otherwise their data will not show up in the component index (and the addons will not be installable or removable via a GUI software center). Cheers, Matthias. -- I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/
Bug#990637: Why do marble have several .desktop files?
[Sune Stolborg Vuorela] > I hope this is sufficient response to "is there a good reason", and I > think the script you use should be adapted to work with this pattern. Note, the script I use operate on the appstream data set, so the fix need to be done in the input system for appstream, not in my script. Or in marble. :) CC to Matthias, to make him aware. -- Vennlig hilsen Petter Reinholdtsen
Bug#990637: Why do marble have several .desktop files?
On Saturday, July 3, 2021 1:53:53 PM CEST Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Package: marble > Version: 4:17.08.3-3.2 > > I just noticed the .desktop files in marble confuses the script used to > generate https://wiki.debian.org/MimeTypesSupport/PackageList > > because it contain 9 .desktop files: Let's start by ignoring the ones placed in KService dir. They are for plugins for the KService library. > % dpkg -L marble|grep desktop > /usr/share/applications/marble_geo.desktop > /usr/share/applications/marble_gpx.desktop > /usr/share/applications/marble_kml.desktop > /usr/share/applications/marble_kmz.desktop > /usr/share/applications/marble_shp.desktop > /usr/share/applications/marble_worldwind.desktop > /usr/share/applications/org.kde.marble.desktop > Is there a good reason for all these desktop files. At elast some of > them seem redundant: > MimeType=application/x-gpx+xml;application/x-esri-shape; If I understand it correctly, it being marble and the desktop spec, all of the extra mime types are supported by marble thru optional plugins; optional plugins that distributions might want to carry in different binary packages, or maybe even not carry at all, and only if the the plugin for application/x- esri-shape is installed, marble support this mimetype. For plugin-based software, this is makes sense. Also e.g. okular uses the same approach. Here is the Debian package split into two packages with the lesser used packages with heavy dependencies resides. I hope this is sufficient response to "is there a good reason", and I think the script you use should be adapted to work with this pattern. Kind regards /Sune -- I didn’t stop pretending when I became an adult, it’s just that when I was a kid I was pretending that I fit into the rules and structures of this world. And now that I’m an adult, I pretend that those rules and structures exist. - zefrank
Bug#990637: Why do marble have several .desktop files?
Package: marble Version: 4:17.08.3-3.2 I just noticed the .desktop files in marble confuses the script used to generate https://wiki.debian.org/MimeTypesSupport/PackageList > because it contain 9 .desktop files: % dpkg -L marble|grep desktop /usr/share/applications/marble_geo.desktop /usr/share/applications/marble_gpx.desktop /usr/share/applications/marble_kml.desktop /usr/share/applications/marble_kmz.desktop /usr/share/applications/marble_shp.desktop /usr/share/applications/marble_worldwind.desktop /usr/share/applications/org.kde.marble.desktop /usr/share/kservices5/marble_part.desktop /usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_kmz.desktop % Is there a good reason for all these desktop files. At elast some of them seem redundant: --- /usr/share/applications/marble_gpx.desktop 2017-10-20 05:52:49.0 +0200 +++ /usr/share/applications/marble_shp.desktop 2017-10-20 05:52:49.0 +0200 @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ GenericName[x-test]=xxVirtual Globexx GenericName[zh_CN]=虚拟地球仪 GenericName[zh_TW]=虛擬地球儀 -MimeType=application/x-gpx+xml; +MimeType=application/x-esri-shape; Icon=marble Terminal=false Categories=Qt;KDE;Education;Geography; These two files could be combined into once by using MimeType=application/x-gpx+xml;application/x-esri-shape; Perhaps the number of .desktop files in the package can be reduced? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
