Bug#850427: Suggestions (inoperative desktop files)

[Fabian Greffrath]

Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Further enhancements to chocolate-update-menus, all engines now covered,
> case insensitivity of IWAD files is addressed, IWAD search path handled
> (although I have excluded DOOMWADDIR and DOOMWADPATH for now, but might
> put them back in for the UID != 0 case); oh, UID != 0 handling. Still
> pretty rough...

Hm, do you realize how much hazzle that is for such a little improvement?
It is literally asking for bugs...

No offense intended, I don't want to bash your effort at all!

But isn't there a little window showing up and explaining that an IWAD
file is missing if you click the desktop entries? Maybe we could improve
that message with a Debian patch to point people to game-data-packager
(like we did e.g. in the rott package).

Or doesn't it show anything? I think it needs zenity for this, maybe we
should promote it to a Recommends or even Depends?

And for all the others who still want to get rid of that desktop entry,
there are tools like alacarte for editing them.

Thanks anyway!

 - Fabian