Bug#728032: [mpv] Installs apparently useless mpv.desktop file.

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 07:38:16PM +0100, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> Package: mpv
> Version: 0.2.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
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> Hi,
> 
> the package installs /usr/share/applications/mpv.desktop, which seems
> useless to me. When a user clicks the mpv entry in a start menu, nothing
> happens since mpv without any arguments just spits out some text on
> stdout. In my opinion a user probably expects something to pop up on the
> screen, e.g., to select a movie file to playback with mpv.

If I understand the *.desktop thing correctly, it is also used by the desktop
environment to decide which application should open a particular type of file,
and that's a pretty important part IMO.

I don't think that there's a way to make it not show up in menus though, so
it's an all or nothing thing I'm afraid.

> PS: [Try-]Exec=mpv is bad, it should be an absolute path pointing to
> binaries, to avoid possibly weird/broken users' $PATH environments.

Right.

Cheers

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