Open Bug 2063915 Opened 20 days ago Updated 9 days ago

Include multilingual .desktop file for tarball installs

Categories

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Installer
Type:
defect

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(Reporter: seburo3, Unassigned, NeedInfo)

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Details

The tarball builds will need a .desktop file as those do not automatically have a desktop shortcut and it will make it harder for the user to open Fx once installed.

Adjusting for files paths, the standard used for one of the other installs should be okay to use.

Component: General → Installer
Product: Firefox Build System → Firefox

IIRC, the main problem (and reason why we don't ship one already) is .desktop files cannot use relative paths, so they are useless out of a tarball, because they can't be used to launch Firefox.

I would need to check later today, but I think we might already ship a .desktop in one of the builds.

We do in packages, not tarballs.

I stand corrected about the inclusion in tarballs...but what if we did?

Sure, the user would need to correct a file path, but that small edit (explained in the SUMO article and/or a comment in the file) would be better than having to create the full file from scratch.

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:cdupuis, could you have a look please?

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