[PATCH xcalc] Add xcalc.desktop file.

[Matěj Cepl]

Dne 12.8.2011 22:34, Gaetan Nadon napsal(a):
> I haven't seen any other .desktop file. What is the motivation behind
> this patch?

Just to make life of package maintainers easier, and relieve them of 
maintaining it as a distro-specific patch.

> There are 50+ X applications, why this one and not other ones?

There are not that many applications which should go to the menus (just 
from the top of my head I think xedit, xeyes, xclock, xconsole?, xload?, 
xmag, xman, probably few others).

> The commit text should indicate what happens on the user desktop, which
> desktop will pick this up,
> what happens on Mac, BSD like systems, Solaris, etc...

This is just described in 
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html

And briefly, it should add an item to the menus of the compliant desktop 
environments (works with default Gnome, KDE, WindowMaker, and probably 
few other ones). I guess Mac OS X (it would be cool if they did), and 
Windows don't work with this.

And yes, it should be just put in the tarball (Alan is right, that's 
piece missing, I will fix that), not installed per default.

Best,

Matěj
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