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Bug 777838 - Please disable "Launch" if only appdata.xml but no .desktop is provided
Please disable "Launch" if only appdata.xml but no .desktop is provided
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-software
Classification: Applications
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Software maintainer(s)
GNOME Software maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-01-27 15:35 UTC by jre.winesim
Modified: 2018-01-24 17:27 UTC
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Description jre.winesim 2017-01-27 15:35:28 UTC 
We just added AppStream support to Wine (will upstream it soon, see https://bugs.debian.org/848839).

Wine is not a graphical app itself (although it has a few graphical helper apps), but is usually used to run other graphical Windows apps.
Wine has a .desktop file, but this is only used to associate file types with Wine.  It can't be used to start Wine, and it has "NoDisplay=true".  Besides that, for unrelated reasons we don't install this .desktop file at all in Debian.

So there is only the appdata.xml, but no .desktop file.

But g-s still shows a "Launch" button, which obviously doesn't work.

Is it possible to not show this button if there is no application available to start?
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 17:27:10 UTC 
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