Re: git-gui desktop launcher

From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date: Feb 6, 2024, 19:12 UTC
Message-ID: <c6be276bfc3c219e1a0ca1619f56c165@manjaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqle7xh1hc.fsf@gitster.g>

On 2024-02-06 19:49, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> 
>> I think such functionality would be generally useful, and probably be
>> beneficial to a wide variety of distributors.
> 
> How have the various distros been packaging their binaries?  Would
> this change affect what they have done already?
> 
> As long as it does not conflict, I am all for it (i.e. we do it once
> and everybody benefits).

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