Bug#771710: gnome-shell: xscreensaver "hacks" show up when browsing Applications in gnome-shell

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Daniel Kahn Gillmor!

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:10:38PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 12/01/2014 03:58 PM, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> 
> > My assumption would be that xscreensaver{,-data,-data-extra} should just
> > fix up the .desktop files it ships.
> 
> I'm fine with that, but i don't know enough about the
> desktop-environment world to know the specifics of what the "fix up"
> should be.
> 
> If you want to suggest a concrete change to the .desktop files and
> reassign to xscreensaver-desktop, i'd have no objection.

I'd like to avoid making concrete suggestions here as I don't know
anything about xscreensaver (or have interest in diving into it --
I'm just trying to share some friendly pointers here), but
if you don't want something to be shown in gnome....

[...]
> OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
> 0 dkg at alice:~$

:/

See also:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/


Regards,
Andreas Henriksson