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FS#14770 - [mplayer] 29188-2 missing .desktop file

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Lee Jackson (ProfessorTomoe) - Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 14:43 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 13:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Hugo Doria (hdoria)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The mplayer-29188-2 package is missing the mplayer.desktop file. As a result, a fresh install of the package has no corresponding KDE4 start menu or context menu entries.

This hit me when I uninstalled the package and reinstalled it.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 13:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  mplayer-30286-1
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 16:17 GMT
it was decided not to include mplayer GUI. there are other frontend like smplayer that is better that the gui provided by mplayer.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 16:22 GMT
Maybe the desktop file could include xterm -e mplayer.
Although i am almost certain that theres gonna be bug reports afterwords about a non working desktop file, ask xterm to be included as a dependency, or use any of the thousands other terminal emulators instead of xterm.
Comment by hdp (hdp) - Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 16:48 GMT
Why the need for a terminal emulator? I think a simple desktop file like the one I attached would do the trick.
   mplayer.desktop (1.2 KiB)
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 19:34 GMT
what's the purpose of adding it? if you miss another entry in the menu, i think you should make it manually :)
Comment by hdp (hdp) - Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 20:15 GMT
For me it's not about the menu entry, it's about the shortcut to mplayer if I click a movie file in Gnome.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 20:17 GMT
Adding a desktop file to get correct file associations is fine, but it shouldn't show up in the menus. The commandline version of mplayer won't display anything when launched without an audio file.
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Friday, 08 January 2010, 20:20 GMT
What's the decision?
the .desktop file hasn't been added to extra/mplayer yet
imo, Jan de Groot is correct.

If we are not going to add the .desktop file, can we close this?
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 08 January 2010, 20:21 GMT
we are gonna implement that on the next rebuild.
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Friday, 08 January 2010, 20:49 GMT
What's the decision?
the .desktop file hasn't been added to extra/mplayer yet
imo, Jan de Groot is correct.

If we are not going to add the .desktop file, can we close this?

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