On 4.4, xfce4-appfinder provided (on right clic) a “more information” item, where you could see for a .desktop file: - Name - Comment - Categories - Command With appfinder 4.6 you can only see Name and Comment, and category if you manually check the various ones, and you can't see the command at all. It'd be nice to be able to display them. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
Even if it's a feature requests, it could also be seen as a regression. Therefor I'm marking this as a bug.
(In reply to comment #0) > On 4.4, xfce4-appfinder provided (on right clic) a “more information” item, > where you could see for a .desktop file: > > - Name > - Comment > - Categories > - Command > > With appfinder 4.6 you can only see Name and Comment, and category if you > manually check the various ones, and you can't see the command at all. I've thought about this again and I'm not sure this is really important. Name and Commend are already displayed. The command shouldn't matter to the end user. And Categories ... well, do you really need that information when you just want to launch an application? I don't think so.
(In reply to comment #2) > I've thought about this again and I'm not sure this is really important. Name > and Commend are already displayed. The command shouldn't matter to the end > user. And Categories ... well, do you really need that information when you > just want to launch an application? I don't think so. At least I am. At some point, I needed those informations and it would have been really nice to have them, instead of going to /usr/share/applications with thunar.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > I've thought about this again and I'm not sure this is really important. Name > > and Commend are already displayed. The command shouldn't matter to the end > > user. And Categories ... well, do you really need that information when you > > just want to launch an application? I don't think so. > > At least I am. At some point, I needed those informations and it would have > been really nice to have them, instead of going to /usr/share/applications with > thunar. I guess it's ok to expose a bit more information about the desktop entry behind the items in a tooltip or something. But that's something for 4.8. I'll make it an enhancement request and hope that I won't forget about it ;)
Trunk now provides a tooltip showing categories and the command of the application. Do you think that this is enough Yves-Alexis?
The problem with a tooltip is that one can't copy/paste. But yeah, basically the info is here :) Cheers, and thanks!
(In reply to comment #3) > At least I am. At some point, I needed those informations and it would have > been really nice to have them, instead of going to /usr/share/applications with > thunar. > To side with Yves-Alexis, sometimes I also need to know the exact command run by xfce4-appfinder (for example, to configure an Autostart entry). So too I wanted to request either to re-instate 'More info' or a tooltip. Thanks for implementing the latter. Now waiting for 4.8 alphas :)
I guess a small dialog to inspect the desktop file is OK, and why not the possibility to open them with exo-desktop-item-edit. A tooltip sounds a little unpractical, commands/categories may be long to read and the text might be selected.
Why isn't this bug marked as fixed? If you feel like someone has to bring some more light about it, so he can reopen the bug. The tooltip looks good enough after all.