Bug 108779 – flightgear doesn't create .desktop file

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aaron 2005-10-10 15:45:22 UTC]

emerging flightgear doesnt create a .desktop file 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =games-simulation/flightgear-0.9.8  
2. look in kde/gnome menu for a flightgear entry 
3.  
  
Actual Results:  
the flightgear entry wasnt there 

Expected Results:  
installed a .desktop file 

Portage 2.0.53_rc4 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 
2.6.13-gentoo-r3 x86_64) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ 
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2 
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13 
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7 
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -pipe -fno-ident" 
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -pipe -fno-ident 
-fvisibility-inlines-hidden" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo 
http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/" 
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="amd64 X a52 aac alsa arts berkdb bzip2 cdr crypt cups dlloader dv dvd 
dvdr encode exif ffmpeg gif gnutls gphoto2 hal ieee1394 jpeg kde 
kdeenablefinal mp3 mysql ncurses nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pic png qt samba 
sdl spell ssl theora tiff truetype usb vorbis wmf xine xml xml2 xv zlib 
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" 
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2005-10-12 06:41:20 UTC]

well, as far as I know there isn't a .desktop file provided with the upstream
package.  If you'd like to create one and attach it to this bug, I'm happy to
consider adding it.

[Comment 2 Anton Romanov 2005-10-12 06:46:19 UTC]

why not just use make_desktop_entry in ebuild ?

[Comment 3 Aaron 2005-10-12 12:16:12 UTC]

Created attachment 70481 [details]
FlightGear desktop file goes into /usr/share/applications

FlightGear desktop file

[Comment 4 Aaron 2005-10-12 12:35:13 UTC]

Created attachment 70483 [details, diff]
or if a patch to the ebuild is better

[Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2005-10-21 05:12:44 UTC]

the other thing you guys wanna consider probably is the fact that fgfs takes
command line arguments.

[Comment 6 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2005-12-07 06:58:01 UTC]

I won't add a desktop entry yet -- unless we have a way to resolve the command
line args thing