[Fwd: Bug#296258: freemind: Integration into GNOME/KDE]

[Eric Lavarde <Eric.Lavarde@bawue.de>]

Hi,

I got the below bug report, and I'm a bit hesitating: on one side I 
understand the wish from the requester, and it would be a useful 
extension of the package; on the other hand, I already use update-menus 
and update-mime to manipulate exactly the same kind of information. 
Moreover the two utilities are integrated into the debian package system 
through dh_installmenu and dh_installmime.
Wouldn't it be a more generic solution if these utilities would actually 
take care of these "details"?

So, what's your opinion and what's the best way to address this?
I would tend to start a discussion on debian-devel and/or forward the 
bug to debhelper.

Thanks, Eric

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Bug#296258: freemind: Integration into GNOME/KDE
Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:18:07 UTC
Resent-From: Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@comlink.org>
Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org
Resent-CC: Eric Lavarde <deb@zorglub.s.bawue.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:28:30 +0100
From: Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@comlink.org>
Reply-To: Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@comlink.org>, 296258@bugs.debian.org
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Package: freemind
Version: 0.7.1-6
Severity: wishlist

Hi and thanks for bringing freemind into Debian, the only useful Java
program I know... ;-)

It would be nice if you would integrate freemind with the
freedesktop.org mime standard, i.e. register a mime type for freemind's
mind maps and register freemind itself as handler. This needs two steps,
basically:

Install the attached freemind.desktop into /usr/share/applications

and freemind.xml into /usr/share/mime/packages

> From postinst, you need to run (if they exist) 
'/usr/bin/update-desktop-database'
and
'/usr/bin/update-mime-database /usr/share/mime' .

After that, clicking a .mm file in nautilus or konqueror should open
them with freemind, and freemind itself should appear in the Office menu
category.

To have a menu icon, I have extracted FreeMindWindowIcon.png from
freemind.jar, converted it to xpm and copied the result to
/usr/share/pixmaps.

Thanks,

Johannes

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages freemind depends on:
ii  j2re1.4 [java2-runtime]       1.4.2.01-1 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 
Runtime Envir

-- no debconf information

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=FreeMind
Comment=
Exec=/usr/bin/freemind
Terminal=false
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/FreeMindWindowIcon.xpm
Type=Application
MimeType=application/x-freemind
Categories=Application;Office;
GenericName=FreeMind
Comment=A free mind mapping tool

Attachment: freemind.xml
Description: XML document