desktop-file-install for all desktop files?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 09:44 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 22 December 2006 10:05, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >> No, the guidelines are simply wrong here.
> > 
> > Matthias, after the break, would you be willing to put in some time to
> > help us revamp this part of the guidelines?
> 
> Help/clout would be appreciated.  I, too, would prefer that the --vendor
> usage be not mandated (ie, be optional at most).  Unfortunately, since the
> fdo menu spec (strongly?) recommends it's usage, it's unclear to many in
> the PC how best to tackle that.
> 
> We made some progress on this recently, see:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DesktopFiles
> 
Can we change this portion from the Guidelines now:

Also remember that it is not simply enough to just include the .desktop
file in the package, you need to run desktop-file-install in %install
(and have BuildRequires: desktop-file-utils). Here are some examples of
desktop-file-install usage:

I believe when we voted to stop mandating the usage of --vendor this
should have gone away as well.

-Toshio
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