[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#551875: mpd: Please add GNOME startup program entry

[Florian Schlichting]

Control: tags 551875 -moreinfo

> I am talking about the list in gnome-session-properties, which calls
> itself "Startup Applications Preferences". The entry created by adding
> it from gnome-session-properties looks like this:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Type=Application
> Exec=mpd
> Hidden=false
> X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
> Name[en_GB]=MPD
> Name=MPD
> Comment[en_GB]=Music Player Daemon
> Comment=Music Player Daemon

I'm reluctant to ship a .desktop file in its proper place
(/etc/xdg/autostart/) without some more testing how other desktops (KDE,
XFCE, ..?) can be prevented to attempt to start MPD as a user when
there's no useable configuration file and MPD is actually running as a
system service. In a way, this is part of the much larger issue how to
properly support both options, along with both ALSA or per-user
pulseaudio, which we'll hopefully solve for jessie.

For now, I decided to ship an mpd.desktop file as example and point to
it in README.Debian, but let me know if you think this can be done
better without breaking things for other users.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian!

Florian