From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Tobias Boesch <tobias.boesch@googlemail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-gui desktop launcher
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:12:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6be276bfc3c219e1a0ca1619f56c165@manjaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqle7xh1hc.fsf@gitster.g>
On 2024-02-06 19:49, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
>
>> I think such functionality would be generally useful, and probably be
>> beneficial to a wide variety of distributors.
>
> How have the various distros been packaging their binaries? Would
> this change affect what they have done already?
>
> As long as it does not conflict, I am all for it (i.e. we do it once
> and everybody benefits).
AFAICT, Linux distributions provided their own version(s) of the
.desktop file. Perhaps the version provided by Fedora [1] could be
consulted, for example, to see what's already expected there, and
to provide parity in the version supplied by us.
[1]
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/fileinfo?rpmID=37302272&filename=git-gui.desktop
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-06 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-05 20:12 git-gui desktop launcher Tobias Boesch
2024-02-05 22:29 ` brian m. carlson
2024-02-06 18:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-02-06 19:12 ` Dragan Simic [this message]
2024-02-12 20:35 ` Tobias Boesch
2024-02-12 21:17 ` Dragan Simic
2024-02-06 21:14 ` Tobias Boesch
2024-02-06 22:29 ` brian m. carlson
2024-02-06 6:50 ` Johannes Sixt
2024-02-06 13:57 ` Marc Branchaud
2024-02-12 20:23 ` Tobias Boesch
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