Bug 363409

Summary:	dev-python/spyder does not install a desktop file
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrea Arteaga (RETIRED) <spiros>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Andrey Grozin <grozin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andrewammerlaan, python, rei4dan
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Adds the desktop file creation in src_install

Description Andrea Arteaga (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-12 23:48:08 UTC

The application spyder is installed properly but no desktop file is placed. The user can't find it in the applications menus.
This is actually an upstream-related problem, that we can fix easily (see patch).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge spyder

Comment 1 Andrea Arteaga (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-12 23:49:06 UTC

Created attachment 269739 [details, diff]
Adds the desktop file creation in src_install

Comment 2 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-07-29 23:12:23 UTC

desktop file in cvs. thanks.

Comment 3 Reinis Danne 2016-04-04 16:28:34 UTC

dev-python/spyder-2.3.8 again doesn't install the desktop file.

Comment 4 Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan gentoo-dev

2017-11-25 12:01:07 UTC

dev-python/spyder-3.2.4 does not install a desktop file for 'spyder3', it does for 'spyder'. 
It would be nice if there was a desktop file for spyder3 too, in order to run spyder with python3. Because spyder complains when you run spyder in python2.X but choose python3.Y as shell for your programs. 
Moreover this means that when spyder is compiled without python_targets_python2_7 it does not create any desktop file, since 'spyder' is absent from the system and only 'spyder3' is present in /usr/bin which does not have a dekstop file.