[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#639996: Bug#639996: fastdnaml is not able to start in GNOME

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 10:25:37PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 
> Indeed, fastdnaml, tree-puzzle, and the fastlink programs do not start when
> launched from the freedesktop menu in GNOME, and therefore probably in KDE and
> XFCE as well (not tested).

These programs are simple command line programs so what exactly should
we expect?  The freedesktop menu should just open a terminal and call
the program - nothing else.  Is there a way to implement this?
 
> Since the programs can still be started from the command line, I have
> downgraded the severity of the respective bugs.
> 
> The freedesktop menu entries could be corrected by making them start a
> terminal, but I think that it goes against the vision of our GNOME maintainers.

If there is a way to do so (which I do not know) then we should do
exactly this.  I have no mind reading abilities and so I can not guess
the vision of our GNOME maintainers, but what else should be done for
command line programs than opening a terminal?  The only way would be to
not provide a freedesktop entry at all and this should probably not be
the method of choice.

> I propose to replace the freedesktop menu entries by Debian menu entries
> similar to the one of boxshade for instance.  The Debian menu can be made
> accessible in GNOME by configuring the freedesktop menu.

I think having a Debian menu entry for these programs makes sense anyway.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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