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

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Sebastian Ramacher
<sramacher at debian.org> wrote:
> On 2013-10-27 22:18:28, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:11:34PM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
>> > On 2013-10-27 21:15:40, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
>> > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 07:38:16PM +0100, Bruno Kleinert wrote:
>> > > > Package: mpv
>> > > > Version: 0.2.1-1
>> > > > Severity: normal
>> > > >
>> > > > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
>> > > > 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.
>> >
>> > You can use NoDisplay=true if you only want the mime type associations.
>>
>> Well, mpv.desktop does use NoDisplay=true AFAICT... the plot thickens.
>
> So it's either not a bug or the submitter's DE doesn't respect that flag
> and then it's not a bug in mpv. At least in Xfce I don't see mpv listed
> in the menu.

Gnome doesn't show it either.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler