FS#44412 - [gnome-boxes] Desktop file is only shown in GNOME

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Sebastiaan Lokhorst (lonaowna) - Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 10:01 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 10:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Balló György (City-busz)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The desktop file of GNOME Boxes (/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Boxes.desktop) has the line "OnlyShowIn=GNOME". This means that it is not shown in other Desktop Environments.
Such a line is useful for DE-specific utilities, such as gnome-system-monitor or gnome-tweak-tool.

Boxes however, is a generic utility which can be used to connect to remote/virtual systems. It is useful in GNOME, but also in other environments (or am I missing something, and is it only usable in GNOME?). Therefore it should be shown in any DE. I suggest that this line is removed.
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Closed by  Balló György (City-busz)
Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 10:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  gnome-boxes 3.16.1
Comment by Sebastiaan Lokhorst (lonaowna) - Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 10:03 GMT
By the way, this is valid for both 3.14 in [Community], and 3.16 in [Community-testing]. Maybe this bug should be moved to the generic 'Packages' category.
Comment by Sebastiaan Lokhorst (lonaowna) - Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 10:08 GMT
Same bug for Fedora, which is closed without good reason: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970582
Comment by Sebastiaan Lokhorst (lonaowna) - Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 10:28 GMT
Debian also patches this:
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-boxes/debian/patches/01_drop-onlyshowin.patch?view=markup&pathrev=43247
Comment by Sebastiaan Lokhorst (lonaowna) - Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 10:40 GMT
Sorry that I didn't found this earlier:
Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665713

It was marked as "WONTFIX", but I have asked them to reconsider.
Comment by Sebastiaan Lokhorst (lonaowna) - Wednesday, 01 April 2015, 21:21 GMT
This was fixed upstream in git (https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-boxes/commit/?id=fe7e9c5af5d0d8de97abb160dfe4a0f09c6daf07).

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