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FS#23531 - [mplayer2] missing desktop file

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Bogdan (JokerBoy) - Thursday, 31 March 2011, 12:27 GMT
Last edited by Stéphane Gaudreault (stephane) - Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 00:52 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Stéphane Gaudreault (stephane)
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 mplayer2 package doesn't have a desktop file. As a result, it has no corresponding context menu entries.
Can this be added in the future builds?

Attached mplayer.desktop from mplayer2-git (AUR).
   mplayer.desktop (1.4 KiB)
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Closed by  Stéphane Gaudreault (stephane)
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 00:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Thursday, 31 March 2011, 12:39 GMT
Also now makepkg has a !buildflags option which can be used instead of unset.
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Thursday, 31 March 2011, 14:45 GMT
If it's not upstream, please submit it upstream.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23387 -  FS#23387  - [community] Cleanup of .desktop files

Also, from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reporting_Bug_Guidelines
"Reasons for not being a bug ... A package which does not include a .desktop file or icons or other freedesktop stuff. This is not a bug if such files are not included in the source tarball, and this must be requested as a feature request upstream. If such files are provided by upstream but not used in the package then this is a bug. "
Comment by Bogdan (JokerBoy) - Thursday, 31 March 2011, 15:01 GMT
Who said this is a bug?

Task Type Feature Request

There is a .desktop file in source but it's for gmplayer. Also, this request is for getting the correct file associations with mplayer2.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14770
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Thursday, 31 March 2011, 16:13 GMT
Under "Reasons for not being a feature"
"... upstream feature."

I consider this an upstream feature.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 31 March 2011, 16:29 GMT
you guys argue too much. just copy the one from extra :)
Comment by Ray Rashif (schivmeister) - Thursday, 31 March 2011, 21:51 GMT
  • Field changed: Summary ([mplayer] missing desktop file → [mplayer2] missing desktop file)
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Assigned)
  • Task assigned to Stéphane Gaudreault (stephane)
This is a valid FR. Bugging upstream about desktop files is a good habit, but in the meantime distributions can fill in.
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Thursday, 31 March 2011, 23:21 GMT
Imo, this attitude is why we have so many dangling .desktop files in the first place.
The way I see it, we either close as won't implement or we remove the .desktop file entry from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reporting_Bug_Guidelines
Anything besides that is contradictory.
Comment by Stéphane Gaudreault (stephane) - Saturday, 02 April 2011, 17:43 GMT
This should be sent upstream, not in the Arch bugtracker.

I opened a ticket upstream for this : http://devel.mplayer2.org/ticket/22

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