Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 12:30:46PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le 05/09/2012 03:55, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> >Note that, independent of any packaging issues for Ubuntu, upstream best
> >practice would have the absolute paths in these files generated at build
> >time, once it's known where they will be installed.
> The specification [1] allows both unity the command name only or the
> full qualified path to it without recommending a solution.

> Looking through /usr/share/applications the vast majority of
> programs nowadays opt for the simple form, likely to avoid having to
> deal with an extra .desktop.in -> desktop through sed handling

That's explicitly the opposite of what you need for /opt however, where the
.desktop files need to point to the executables which are not on a path.

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