Re: GNOME Tweak Tool, desktop entries and the Control Center

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 20:36 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> Hi John, and fellow GNOME Shell users,
> 
> One issue brought up by our Fedora testers is that Tweak Tool does not 
> appear in GNOME Shell's application browser -- which turns out to be 
> because its desktop entry's main category is 'Settings'; all Settings 
> desktop entries, mostly Control Center applets, are searchable in Shell 
> but not browseable.
> 
> Unfortunately, Control Center does not list GTT either, I'm guessing 
> because it's not a real capplet!
> 
> Should GTT's desktop entry declare it to be a 'Utility' rather than a 
> 'Settings'? I've experimented with making it both -- while it does make 
> it browseable, it's not a pretty sight, as searching for it now shows 
> two duplicate entries (one as an app and one under Settings).

I have gone ahead and changed it to Utility, but I wonder if having
duplicate entries appear is actually a bug.

What do other developers think?

John

> 
> Thanks,
>