As subject. Some environments only present a list of applications that
are configured via .desktop apps (like it or not); xclock should be
available in those environments.

possibly also xcalc, xeyes, oclock, xlogo, xbiff.

Thanks!

Hello,

Attached is a patch adding freedesktop.org .desktop entries for
xclock, xcalc, xeyes, oclock, xlogo, and xbiff, closing #1131791.

Notes:

Files go into debian/desktop/ and are installed to
/usr/share/applications/ via debian/x11-apps.install. No changes to
upstream sources.
All six files pass desktop-file-validate.
Icon= is set to the binary name in each file.
Most icon themes don't ship icons under those names, so DEs will fall
back to a generic app icon.
I can follow up with Icons if it is wanted .
Built and installed cleanly on trixie; entries appear in application
menus as expected.

Thanks,
Lily

I've picked up the patch Lily sent to this bug in August, added hicolor icons
for all six applications, and opened a merge request against the packaging
repository:



<https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/app/x11-apps/-/merge_requests/4>



The MR keeps Lily's .desktop files (co-authored) and adds PNG icons rendered
from the classic X icon bitmaps -- clock.bit, oclock.bit and eyes.bit from the
x11-apps sources, plus calculator, mailfull and xlogo64 from the xbitmaps
package -- installed into the hicolor theme so the entries get their proper
icons instead of generic fallbacks.

Verification done: all six .desktop files pass desktop-file-validate; Icon=
names and Exec= binaries were checked against the package contents; the icons
use dark glyphs on light fills so they read on both light and dark themes.



AI assisted.





BR,

Adrian Alan



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