Re: git-gui desktop launcher

From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date: Feb 12, 2024, 21:17 UTC
Message-ID: <79989c064af19f5a7ef036d7ee0caf02@manjaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <eb122f205692ef4848e3adf792d67067bb52dd1c.camel@googlemail.com>

Hello Tobias,

On 2024-02-12 21:35, Tobias Boesch wrote:

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> On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 20:12 +0100, Dragan Simic wrote:
>> 
>> AFAICT, Linux distributions provided their own version(s) of the
>> .desktop file.  Perhaps the version provided by Fedora [1] could be
>> consulted, for example, to see what's already expected there, and
>> to provide parity in the version supplied by us.
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/fileinfo?rpmID=37302272&filename=git-gui.desktop
> 
> The file contents of the fedora desktop launcher is here:
> /home/tobiasb/.local/share/applications/git gui.desktop
> 
> It differs
> - in the program name. "Git GUI" instead of "Git Gui".

To me, "GUI" looks much better than "Gui" in a window title.

> - It leaves out the "portable" in the description ;-).

Perhaps Fedora is right there, because it refers to a version packaged for a specific architecture.

> - I has no option to be launched from a location in file browser (open
> with...)

Maybe it could be better to take that approach and add the "Open with..." feature later, just to play it safe.

> I will adopt mine to match their file as good as possible.

Good luck and have fun! :)