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

[Bruno Kleinert]

Am Montag, den 28.10.2013, 22:50 +0100 schrieb Alessandro Ghedini:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 09:15:40PM +0100, 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.
> 
> As Sebastian pointed out, there actually is a way to do it, and apparently
> mpv.desktop is already doing it (and it seems to generally work). So if you do
> see mpv in your menu, it's probably a bug in whatever software manages your
> menus (that is, it doesn't respect NoDisplay=true).

I forgot about the NoDisplay-thingy when reporting the bug. Here it's
the gnome-shell that displayed it, and IIRC correctly it showed it
within the most often used applications, not in the regular list.

At the moment, gnome-shell apperently decided, that I didn't use mpv
often enought, as a result it's not in this list anymore.

To sum things up, it's not a bug in mpv, gnome-shell did something werid
and right now everything looks as is should. So this bug can be closed
and doesn't even need to be forwarded to gnome-shell. I have to
observer, if it gets back to the often used applications list.

Cheers - Fuddl
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