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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

As for the motivation behind this annoying to apply patch, it's quite
simple: desktop integration with linux as it is right now is fairly
broken, some mime types are set incorrectly and the icons are not
installed correctly (in a way that the desktop can use them). There
might be some downstream patches done by packagers to patch it up, but
this should make it unnecessary.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:59 PM, José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Patch 1: Fix resources/linux/mime/mime/packages/kicad.xml by changing
> the extension to .kicad_pcb (was set to .brd which is the old one),
> the mimetype name itself is corrected to "application/x-kicad-pcb" to
> agree with the .application files. It also renames the package to
> kicad-kicad.xml to conform to the XDG convention that calls for a
> vendor-product.xml format [1]
>
> Patch 2: Remove the resources/linux/mime/mimelnk folder. mimelnk
> hasn't been used since KDE 3, If someone is still using bleeding edge
> KiCad and KDE3 together they are used to patching things, so
> maintaining those files themselves shouldn't be too much to ask.
>
> Patch 3: Clean up the applications/*.destop files. Put all keys in
> consistent order and remove/fix bogus mime types, some assigned to
> programs that don't even open files. Those files could use some TLC
> from translators and people better at words than me to improve the
> wording and provide translated names and tooltips, i preserved some of
> the french that was already in the files.
>
> Patch 4: Fix hicolor icons. This renames (well, actually regenerates
> from the originals) all the icons installed on Linux to match the
> correct mime type names, and adds all the missing icons in some sizes.
> This is not a diff because it's mostly binaries, I prepared a tarball
> with the new contents of the resources/linux/mime/icons folder, to
> apply just delete that directory and unzip patch-4.tar.gz in it's
> place.
>
> To generate the new icons directory I put together a very hackish
> python script called mk_icons.py which must be called from
> resources/linux/mime. the script reads the .application files and the
> kicad-kicad.xml mime package file, reconciles mime types and
> application icons and generates the right icons for the applications
> and mimetypes from the originals in bitmaps_png/sources. It also warns
> if the xml and .application files go out of sync.
>
> I tested these changes on Debian Testing with Gnome3 and they work
> perfectly, I can open kicad files from nautilus directly after doing a
> make install and update-mime. If someone could give this a try on
> other Linux distros it'd be great. Worst case i don't think it'd work
> worse than before.
>
> Thanks!
> José