Bug#850427: Suggestions (inoperative desktop files)

[Fabian Greffrath]

Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Perhaps, at least for the freeze deadline, this is a better approach. I
> couldn't remember which package we did this for, maybe it was rott; and
> zenity
> sounds familiar. Perhaps I should switch focus to a PoC of this approach.

It was ROTT, this is the relevant patch:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-games/rott.git/tree/debian/patches/no-files-found-dialog.patch

> (P.S.: it occurred to me whilst doing this that we could put hacx in
> non-free
> post-freeze, and possibly chex too)

Yes, good idea! HACX should definitely be suitable for non-free. Not sure
about Chex Quest, though, I am not sure if this even comes with a proper
license.

> If we were already using sdl2, we could have looked at using that for the
> dialog. Alas!

Yes, native dialog windows will make things a lot easier.