[distcc] Re: .desktop file

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Martin Pool wrote:

> On 13 Oct 2003, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > I would also change the .desktop file to the following:
> > > > 
> > > > 	[Desktop Entry]
> > > > 	Name=Distcc Monitor
> > > > 	Comment=Graphical view of distributed compile tasks
> > > > 	Exec=distccmon-gnome
> > > > 	Icon=distccmon-gnome-icon.png
> > > > 	Terminal=false
> > > > 	Type=Application
> > > > 	Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
> > > > 	StartupNotify=true
> > > > 
> > > > Unless some of the other key names offers functionality that I'm not aware 
> > > > of. I'd like the menu-entries uppercase, as this is common practice for 
> > > > Gnome.
> > > 
> > > I'd rather not.  
> 
> I see you dropped the TryExec, Encoding, and Version fields.  Why is
> that?

Version and Encoding are added by desktop-file-install.

TryExec is (as far as I know) not needed when it matches the Exec part. 
(None of the programs that I package use this so I'm confident that it's 
not required and not useful).

Thanks for your feedback,
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