Re: Bug#214707: wine package provides useless wine.desktop file
"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su> writes:
>> > /usr/share/applnk/wine.desktop file provided by wine package seems to
>> > be of no real use, and does uglify KDE menu. Please remove it.
>>
>> I think this was added so that GNOME would run Wine when a file of type
>> application/x-executable was opened in gmc (old file manager) or
>> something like that. It's not meant to add a menu entry. I can remove
>> it if it's useless in GNOME too, but that would have to be verified
>> first. And while we're at it, perhaps someone could let me know how I
>> should associate .exe files with Wine in KDE, since I don't use it.
>
> If so, this file should be moved to /usr/share/applnk/.hidden/.
> I believe it is correct directory for file of that purpose.
The right place for desktop files (both KDE and GNOME) is /usr/share/applications
Christian
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