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Bug 57203 - Games like rocksndiamonds and bzflag need XDG menu entries
Summary: Games like rocksndiamonds and bzflag need XDG menu entries
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Games (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Games
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Reported: 2004-07-15 10:32 UTC by Braden
Modified: 2011-09-14 20:40 UTC (History)
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Description Braden 2004-07-15 10:32:14 UTC
Most of the people who play games on our family computer do not want to have to press ALT-F2, and then type in "rocksndiamonds.sdl" in order to play a game like rocksndiamonds.

All that's needed is to put something like the following into /usr/share/applications/[game name].desktop
_______________
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Rocks n Diamonds
GenericName=Boulderdash Clone
Comment=Boulderdash Clone
Exec=rocksndiamonds.sdl
Icon=keditbookmarks
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=SDL;Game;ArcadeGame
StartupNotify=false
_______________

Because of the wonderful new XDG menu standard, this entry should appear in every desktop (but for now I think it's just KDE and GNOME). Of course, for most games, you would also need to include an icon (instead of using a KDE one as I did in the example)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge bzflag
2. try to find BZFlag in the KDE menu
Actual Results:  
BZFlag is not shown 

Expected Results:  
BZflag should be found in Menu > Games > Arcade > BZ flag 

Using kde.
Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-16 17:30:33 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25756 ***
Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-19 09:07:06 UTC
Closing to clean up after bugzilla upgrade.  reopen if closed in error.  Thanks.
Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-09-14 20:40:46 UTC
clean up bug list after bugzilla update