[Spice-devel] [vdagent-linux] spice-vdagent.desktop: Set NoDisplay=true

Jonathon Jongsma jjongsma at redhat.com
Sat Oct 29 18:37:28 UTC 2016


On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 11:08 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com>
> 
> Ubuntu's Unity still ships the Startup Applications app
> (gnome-session-properties).
> 
> Setting NoDisplay=true means this autostart file won't show up in
> there
> since this isn't something we really want users to unknowingly
> disable
> that easily.
> 
> Resolves: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98465
> ---
>  data/spice-vdagent.desktop | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/data/spice-vdagent.desktop b/data/spice-vdagent.desktop
> index d152c12..3f91af4 100644
> --- a/data/spice-vdagent.desktop
> +++ b/data/spice-vdagent.desktop
> @@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ Terminal=false
>  Type=Application
>  Categories=
>  X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
> +NoDisplay=true


This seems like a policy thing that different distributors could have
different opinions about. However, I don't know if anybody else still
ships this app, so maybe it only affects Ubuntu? So I guess I don't
really have any objection.

Jonathon


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