[Bug 231859] Review Request: scratchpad - Spatial text editor for the GNOME desktop

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Summary: Review Request: scratchpad - Spatial text editor for the GNOME desktop


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231859





------- Additional Comments From bjohnson at symetrix.com  2007-05-01 22:17 EST -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> 2. Not sure I agree on this. If this isn't considered a blocker I can't see any
> benefit in separating libguniqueapp that justify the extra effort. I don't want
> to maintain a rather obscure gnome library that hasn't seen upstream development
> for 7 months. Feel free to convince me that separating is the best solution
however.

Well the idea is to take the work off you to update with security or bug fixes,
and save resources between packages, but if the project is a) not being used in
other packages in fedora and b) not actively developed or maintained then it
would probably not make a lot of sense.  And no, it wouldn't be a blocker,
especially in this case.

> 3. Upstream issue. I've queried upstream. I can't think of any good downstream
> solutions to this. Please help if you can.

Well, after looking through the code and doing a little investigation, it
appears that if it's going to get a .desktop entry, then some form of
file-selector has to be implemented when it is run with no arguements. 
Unfortunately, I've never worked with gtk, so I don't know how myself.  Seems
like it would not be hard though.

Not providing a .desktop entry for a gui app would break the packaging standards
as it's required.

However, we could argue to the packaging committe that it should be packaged as
a "shell extension" (is that what's it's called in gnome?) only, but it seems
dependent on the .desktop entry for that to work.  Remove the .desktop entry and
it no longer works by right-click on a file.

> 5. Not needed for FC5+, IE: not needed
My mistake.



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