[Xastir] Fwd: [Bug 999356] [NEW] xastir is missing a .desktop file

[David Flood]

<begin personal viewpoint that may or may not reflect the authors of Xastir>

If Xastir was intended to be distributed as a binary then I could see the
value of some sort of integration file.  But it is only distributed as
source code unless someone builds and distributes a binary independent of
the CSV site.

Any binary distributions of Xastir are therefore the responsibility of the
person who built and distributed it, not the CVS source tree.

<end of personal viewpoint>

In addition, if I was able to find the right documentation regarding a
.desktop file, there isn't any way to launch the executable inside a
terminal window and have that window hang around after Xastir ends.  Xastir
outputs many of its diagnostic messages to the terminal when running so
anything that just runs the binary inside a hidden process is useless for
understanding any errors that might occur.

Dave
KD7MYC

-----Original Message-----
From: xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org
[mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Suprin
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 18:00

Pardon my late jumping in on this topic, but my understanding was the
.desktop file is supposed to be desktop agnostic. Unity, KDE, and gnome all
honor them.  I have not checked on other desktops.