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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Betterbird

Include .desktop file in linux build tar

Open ishanarora opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

ishanarora avatar Dec 07 '23 01:12 ishanarora

The project provides a .desktop file which you can tailor to your needs. We use the Mozilla build tools (./mach package) to build the .tar.bz2 and for some reason Mozilla have no provision to include a desktop file. FlatPak and Arch AUR already ship one.

It would be some effort to change our build script to include the .desktop file. Since there were no complaints since 2021, this issue doesn't appear to have high priority. Can you submit a PR?

Betterbird avatar Dec 07 '23 09:12 Betterbird

Agreed. It's low priority, perhaps not worth the effort.

ishanarora avatar Dec 07 '23 21:12 ishanarora

This is not planned. We have an installation script now which produces a desktop file and adjusts it based on install location. This is more useful than packaging the desktop file.

https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/blob/main/install-on-linux/install-betterbird.sh

Betterbird avatar May 19 '24 22:05 Betterbird