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  • mccmcc@mastodon.social
    Jun 28, 2026, 12:59 AM

    @dotstdy @whitequark if the user cannot figure out how to launch the application, then writing a desktop file on first launch will not be helpful.

    additionally, it is unclear to me what a .desktop file would do if i had one. when i tried creating a .desktop file, I could not figure out how to interact with it. would you expect double clicking a .desktop file to open the application? For me it opened in a program named "Main Menu" created by a group named LibreMenuEditor.

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  • mccmcc@mastodon.social
    Jun 28, 2026, 1:01 AM

    @dotstdy @whitequark (Another oddity I'm just noticing; if you are looking at an application in the GNOME "Software" application, such as "Main Menu", there does not appear to be a way to share a link to that pane in GNOME software, such as would allow me to say, in a mastodon post, "this" and link to the "Main Menu" application to distinguish it from the other program in GNOME software named "Main Menu".)

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  • Josh Simmonsdotstdy@mastodon.social
    Jun 28, 2026, 1:01 AM

    @mcc @whitequark desktop file just adds an entry in the start menu, you still need to have some way to create it in the first place anyway, which means clicking on something executable.

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  • mccmcc@mastodon.social
    Jun 28, 2026, 1:02 AM

    @dotstdy it appears to mean "clicking on an ELF executable", since double clicking on a +x shell script does nothing

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  • Josh Simmonsdotstdy@mastodon.social
    Jun 28, 2026, 1:05 AM

    @mcc that depends on your desktop environment. (so yes, a regular elf binary is a good way to make it more likely to work without complexity)

    kde prompt for executable shell file
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  • Matthew Sheffieldmattsheffield@mastodon.social
    Jun 28, 2026, 2:33 AM

    @dotstdy @mcc Yes this is a Nautilus problem. They're trying to be more secure by banning direct shell script execution, but in practice this is inconvenient for some use cases, especially if you're used to a Windows style way of distributing programs.

    Dolphin and some other file managers don't have this problem.

    Probably best to do an ELF executable. It is an oversight that ELF defines no embedded icon though.

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