[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Nearly all GNUstep apps are missing from the GNOME Software catalog

[Yavor Doganov]

Josh Freeman wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2018, at 9:16 AM, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> 
> > I wonder how TextEdit is available when its icon is in
> > /usr/share/GNUstep which is not part of the icon search path.
> 
>    Here's my guess:
> [...]
>    Any software that supports symbolic links can still access the icon
> at the /usr/lib/... path, however, according to the AppStream's
> 'icon-not-found' error message for Paje.app, it doesn't support
> symbolic links:

Right, although Paje's error is not due to the symlink.

>    TextEdit.app's package installs a custom .desktop file instead of
> the one generated by gnustep-make. The custom file's Icon entry
> happens to use the direct filepath, which is probably why AppStream's
> able to find it:
> Icon=/usr/share/GNUstep/TextEdit.app/accessories-text-editor_128x128x32.png

But AppStream looks only in /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/pixmaps,
so the mystery still applies.

Some apps (like GNUMail) have /usr/share/GNUstep in their Icon key as
well, although the icon is in .tiff format.