[bt-devel] bibletime.desktop

[Greg Hellings]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/26/2018 10:02 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>
> Fedora packaging is reporting two warnings with our desktop file. The
> first is relating to our Categories. It suggests enhancing them with the
> following message: "hint: value item "Dictionary" in key "Categories" in
> group "Desktop Entry" can be extended with another category among the
> following categories: Office, or TextTools"
>
> Obvious that's not necessary, but it's something we might consider. The
> other item is more correct. It observes that we list "bibletime" as the
> name of our icon file, but no image file named "bibletime" is present in
> the installed source. Rather we install bibletime.{svg,png} both to the
> icon folder, which I presume is what we're wanting to state. I'm not sure
> which of these we would prefer, but we should probably fix the file to
> properly identify the icon to use.
>
> --Greg
>
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> Hi Greg,
>
> Here is the desktop entry spec from freedesktop:
>
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-
> spec/latest/ar01s06.html
>
> Using relative names in the Icon is preferred, this way icon theme
> maintainers can provide whatever format they want.  Using hardlinks, or
> file extensions is not recommended, so Fedora packaging is reporting
> erroneous errors, as the BibleTime desktop file is correct (in the Icon
> field).  Please do not make this change, I like the Numix Circle Icon I
> currently use, though others might like their Icon theme of choice.
>
I think you misunderstand. The file is not being found. As Gary pointed
out, it was being installed to the incorrect location. He's fixed this in
the repository and it should be picked up by the next release.

> Here is the Menu entry spec:
>
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
>
> I would also not suggest putting it in Office, since it is in Education
> already.  This would cause a sort of randomness to where it was located in
> various desktop environments (LXQt may do it differently than KDE, and all
> the other DE/WM people might use).  I don't think Dictionary is a good
> choice since it also relates to Office:
>
> Here is the additional categories spec:
>
It is a text tool, though.

--Greg

> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apas02.html
>
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