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FS#9068 - Tuxracer needs .desktop file and icon

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Radu Potop (wooptoo) - Tuesday, 01 January 2008, 13:32 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 15 March 2009, 01:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Tuxracer has no .desktop file and icon.
I attached the two.
   tuxracer.png (0.6 KiB)
   tuxracer.desktop (0.2 KiB)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 15 March 2009, 01:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  tuxracer 0.61-8
Comment by Ariszló (ariszlo) - Monday, 09 March 2009, 19:57 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
Tux Racer is no longer maintained upstream. tuxracer-0.61 & tuxracer-data-0.61 were last updated on January 31, 2001.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Monday, 09 March 2009, 19:57 GMT
Considering it's no longer maintained upstream, let's let Allan decide if he wants to do this or not
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 09 March 2009, 20:09 GMT
I only adopted tuxracer because I would never have to update it... Maybe it should be replaced with a fork (http://www.extremetuxracer.com).

Anyway, does anybody know where that particular icon can from?
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 09 March 2009, 20:10 GMT
It seems that extreme-tuxracer is in [community] under the name etracer
Comment by Ariszló (ariszlo) - Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 22:03 GMT
etracer is so slow on lower-end Intel machines that it is unplayable. tuxracer.png is from tuxracer-data. The attached .desktop file has a buggy Icon field and lacks GenericName, Comment and their translations. I will upload a replacement when I find it on my other machine.
Comment by Ariszló (ariszlo) - Friday, 13 March 2009, 19:19 GMT
Here is tuxracer.desktop with fixed Icon field, more specific Categories field (useful in KDE), Comment (translated into German, Hungarian, Nynorsk & Polish) and GenericName (translations copied from KAppfinder). The Hungarian translation of GenericName copied from KAppfinder was too generic (verseny means all kinds of competitions) so I replaced it.

I am also attaching some alternative icons. Use whichever you find best:

tuxracer_32.png is from tuxracer-data-0.61/textures/tuxlife.rgb
tuxracer-splash.png is from tuxracer-data-0.61/textures/splash_*.rgb
herring_standard.png is from tuxracer-data-0.61/courses/common/herring_standard.rgb
herringicon.png is from tuxracer-data-0.61/textures/herringicon.rgb
   tuxracer.desktop (3.3 KiB)
   tuxracer_32.png (1.7 KiB)
   tuxracer-splash.png (14.7 KiB)
   herring_standard.png (11.5 KiB)
   herringicon.png (2.3 KiB)
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Friday, 13 March 2009, 19:44 GMT
Are you sure there are no graphical options to make etracer faster?
You could also report this performance problem upstream.

tuxracer is dead for ages, afaik it has been replaced at least twice : first planet penguin racer and now extreme tux racer.
Imo it should definitely go to unsupported. ariszlo could then maintain it there :)
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 13 March 2009, 23:23 GMT
I too have the problems with extreme-tux racer - the frame rate appears to be dropped to keep speed up but it is quite jerky...

I thought about moving this to the AUR but after adding the desktop file and icon, I hopefully won't need to touch it for a few years. And it is good for testing out some SDL components I maintain.
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Friday, 13 March 2009, 23:38 GMT
Ah ah, I can see your evil plan : adopt and keep as many unmaintained apps as possible, for making everyone believe you are a hard-working packager, maintaining a long list of apps, while in fact you have nothing to do!

Just kidding :)
As long as it still works correctly and you want to keep it, there are little place for arguing. And tuxracer is cool :)

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