GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 665713
Show Boxes in other desktops too
Last modified: 2016-09-20 08:15:55 UTC
Please don't use OnlyShowIn: in your .desktop file unless the app is something like Calculator or System Monitor that would actually conflict with other desktops. For instance, Boxes works just fine in Unity or XFCE and I don't see why we should intentionally block KDE unless there's a conflict or KDE complains.
While it might be possible for Boxes to exist in other desktops right now, it is going to get harder and harder since Boxes is very much designed for GNOME as an OS. I think its better to give a clear message from the start then to cause a huge disappointment/outcry later.
Can you please reconsider this unless there is a good reason why it won't work with a different DE? I use it as a QEMU-frontend under Openbox (Arch Linux), and it works great! :) It is a shame I have to open it using the terminal.
(In reply to sebastiaanlokhorst from comment #2) > Can you please reconsider this unless there is a good reason why it won't > work with a different DE? Well my reasoning is specified in comment#1 but seems it works in other environments fine so I guess I can enable this. > I use it as a QEMU-frontend under Openbox (Arch > Linux), and it works great! :) Glad to hear.
commit: fe7e9c5af5d0d8de97abb160dfe4a0f09c6daf07 desktop: Show in menus of other DEs too So far I've been afraid of showing Boxes in menus of other DEs cause I wasn't sure it works outside of GNOME but I keep hearing from users that it does work fine on them too. So lets show Boxes in menus of other DEs as well.