Bug 249366 – app-editors/gvim: provided desktop files have some issues

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2008-11-30 12:07:36 UTC]

gvim.desktop and gvim.desktop-r1 (both in ${FILESDIR}) have the following issues:
1. They use key "Encoding" , that in group "Desktop Entry" is deprecated -> Simply drop it :-)
2. They have "Application" as a Category, that is also deprecated
3. They specify a lot of text/* as MimeType, it's is not recommended as explained in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552466#c5 because text/plain is being also specified. Then, "text/plain" should be enough

Thanks a lot

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) 2008-12-01 06:50:31 UTC]

Thanks for your suggestions! Assigning to maintainers.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2009-09-14 16:33:12 UTC]

Any news on this? Point "3" is a bit important because it causes gnome to open gvim for a lot of text files until I manually set it to open them with gedit

Thanks a lot

[Comment 3 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) 2009-09-24 15:50:27 UTC]

*** Bug 285924 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) 2009-09-25 14:33:03 UTC]

Yes, updated the .desktop file in app-editors/gvim-7.2.238 to address all 3
issues:
 - No more Encoding
 - No more Application in the Category
 - Only specify text/plain in MimeType

Thanks for the report!