I do not understand the need for this being a desktop application. It's very irritating having to watch this every time I open up gnome package overview (meta+A). If someone know why this exists please tell. Reproducible: Always
Found workaround: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_entries#Hide_desktop_entries (this is what I get for not doing extensive searching before reporting a bug...) I still however don't see why it would have a .desktop file but I guess I can simply hide it and that is enough.
I suppose this makes little sense indeed. It's not like we proactively create .desktop files for a lot of console apps.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/sandbox.git/commit/?id=3feda84e2b5c1522776e2e023651fb87a98e6970 commit 3feda84e2b5c1522776e2e023651fb87a98e6970 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-02-28 06:40:43 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-02-28 06:52:11 +0000 Stop installing the icon and .desktop file The menu entry for Sandbox is not very useful, so stop installing it by default. Leave the files in place in case somebody wanted them. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/710920 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Makefile.am | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
I've pushed the change to the repository, and it will be part of the next sandbox release. However, I don't think it's major enough to warrant a new release by itself.
