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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: affects 771710 gnome-screensaver

On 12/01/2014 04:21 PM, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> 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/

sure, but removing that line wouldn't prevent it from being shown in
gnome, it just would make it visible everywhere.  at least right now i
think it wouldn't be shown in KDE, for example. :)

fwiw, that line was added in 5.06-1 (2008-07-22) to fix a lintian
warning, if Tormod Volden's debian/changelog is to be believed.

and all of the .desktop files for the hacks appear to be in the debian
packaging, and not in upstream (upstream only ships
./driver/screensaver-properties.desktop.in).

the .desktop files appear to be shipped specifically for the benefit of
gnome-screensaver, though: they were introduced to resolve
https://bugs.debian.org/410095

So if someone from the GNOME team can determine that these are no longer
needed, maybe we can just drop them entirely to resolve this issue?

I hope that someone who understands any of the packages involved in this
little intersection better than i do can make a decision about what
needs to happen here, and reassign this bug if appropriate to the right
package.

Regards,

	--dkg

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