Bug 612058

Summary:	games-emulation/dosbox - desktop file uses absolute icon path
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Anders Blebstrup-Pedersen <abp>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	wine
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Anders Blebstrup-Pedersen 2017-03-08 14:59:44 UTC

Hi

I'm in the middle of going over my gentoo system unifying the entire system as much as possible.
I noticed that dosbox is using and absolute path for its .desktop
This means it breaks the consistency for users who wants to use icon packs on their gentoo system.

At this time the .desktop file is 

[Desktop Entry]
Name=DOSBox
Type=Application
Comment=DOS emulator
Exec=dosbox
TryExec=dosbox
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/dosbox.ico
Categories=Game;Emulator;

I suggest changing it to:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=DOSBox
Type=Application
Comment=DOS emulator
Exec=dosbox
TryExec=dosbox
Icon=dosbox
Categories=Game;Emulator;

if it does not break anything else.

Comment 1 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2018-09-09 19:01:56 UTC

ICO files don't seem to work unless an absolute path is given, at least under Xfce. It's annoying that they don't provide another format.