Bug#921705: gnome: Please do not override debian-xterm.desktop file

[Laurent Bigonville]

On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:24:58 -0800 Ben Wong <bugs.debian.org at wongs.net> 
wrote:

 > Dear Maintainer,

Hello,

[...]
 >
 > It turns out that some part of Gnome is creating a *second* desktop
 > file which disables the first one by setting NoDisplay = True. This is
 > extremely frustrating and unnecessary. The file is
 > /usr/share/gnome/applications/debian-xterm.desktop
 >
 > I would like to tell you which part of Gnome is the culprit, but
 > `dpkg -S` on the file says it doesn't belong to any packages.
 >
 > I can understand that certain distributions derived from Debian —
 > those which believe minimalism equates to simplicity — may wish to
 > hide "redundant" functionality like `xterm`. However, it doesn't make
 > sense to hide xterm from Debian users. And if it did, it certainly
 > should not be implemented in such a hard to discover way.

[...]

The preferred solution to fix this is to modify the 
/etc/gnome/menus.blacklist (that file controls the mechanism applying 
the blacklisting) and then run the gnome-menus-blacklist command.

There is not real consensus in the team about changing this ATM

Kind regards,

Laurent Bigonville