Install icon & .desktop file to XDG data#15068

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luke-jr commented Dec 31, 2018

With #13809 (packaging split off), we lost the .desktop and .protocol files.

This PR restores them, and puts them in their proper places as part of make install. (Systems without XDG can be configured --without-xdg to avoid this, and the macOS/Windows gitian descriptors are updated to use it.)

Note that:

bitcoin128.svg needs to be named such because (for some reason) bitcoin128 has become the de facto standard XDG icon name for the generic Bitcoin icon.
org.bitcoin.bitcoin-qt.desktop is required to match QAPP_ORG_DOMAIN, which we have set to "bitcoin.org" for some reason. (Changing that is out of scope for this PR)

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maflcko commented Dec 31, 2018

Build fails with

make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'src/qt/res/src/bitcoin128.svg', needed by 'all-am'.  Stop.

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hebasto commented Dec 31, 2018

Could the Comment field in the .desktop file be updated with more languages?

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luke-jr commented Dec 31, 2018

@MarcoFalke Why? It's part of the git branch...

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laanwj commented Jan 2, 2019

Concept ACK, this the better way to do it IMO than installing it with the packaging.

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luke-jr commented Jan 3, 2019

@hebasto After this PR, I don't see why not.

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hebasto commented Jan 3, 2019

Concept ACK.

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laanwj commented Jan 8, 2019

Regarding the build system issue, it looks like the icon is not part of make dist? Likely it needs to be added to another makefile variable.

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jonasschnelli commented Jan 8, 2019

Concept ACK

bitcoin128.svg needs to be named such because (for some reason) bitcoin128 has become the de facto standard XDG icon name for the generic Bitcoin icon

Do we want to set the standard Bitcoin icon? IMO Bitcoin Core is a specific application and not sure if that icon should be the default "Bitcoin Icon".

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luke-jr commented Jan 8, 2019

There we go, Travis is happy now. Shall I squash?

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luke-jr commented Jan 8, 2019

@jonasschnelli Bitcoin Core doesn't have its own icon at this time - we've always used the generic Bitcoin icon. When/if it does, then the PR adding it can change to use that instead...

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hebasto commented Jan 9, 2019

The file name org.bitcoin.bitcoin-qt.desktop does not follow Desktop Entry Specification:

The name of the desktop entry should follow the "reverse DNS" convention: it should start with a reversed DNS domain name controlled by the author of the application, in lower case. The domain name should be followed by the name of the application, which is conventionally written with words run together and initial capital letters (CamelCase). For example, if the owner of example.org writes "Foo Viewer", they might choose the name org.example.FooViewer, resulting in a file named org.example.FooViewer.desktop.

Well-known names containing the dash are allowed but not recommended, because the dash is not allowed in some related uses of reversed DNS names, such as D-Bus object paths and interface names, and Flatpak app IDs. If the author's domain name contains a dash, replacing it with an underscore is recommended: this cannot cause ambiguity, because underscores are not allowed in DNS domain names.

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share/qt/org.bitcoin.bitcoin-qt.desktop.in

+              Encoding=UTF-8
+              Version=1.0
+              Name=@PACKAGE_NAME@
+              GenericName=Bitcoin full node@AND_WALLET@

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hebasto Jan 9, 2019

Localized [Comment] strings imply localized [GenericName] strings as well :)

share/qt/org.bitcoin.bitcoin-qt.desktop.in

+              Type=Application
+              Icon=bitcoin128
+              MimeType=x-scheme-handler/bitcoin;
+              Categories=Office;Finance;P2P;Network;Qt;

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hebasto Jan 9, 2019

Is Office a relevant category?

share/qt/org.bitcoin.bitcoin-qt.desktop.in

+              Comment[fr]=Bitcoin, monnaie virtuelle cryptographique pair à pair
+              Comment[tr]=Bitcoin, eşten eşe kriptografik sanal para birimi
+              TryExec=bitcoin-qt
+              Exec=bitcoin-qt %u

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hebasto Jan 9, 2019

%u will not be recognized by bitcoin-qt:

%u - A single URL. Local files may either be passed as file: URLs or as file path.

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luke-jr Jan 10, 2019

Why not? We expect URIs.

share/qt/org.bitcoin.bitcoin-qt.desktop.in

		@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
		[Desktop Entry]

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hebasto Jan 9, 2019

Why not use the same key order as described in Desktop Entry Specification?

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luke-jr Jan 10, 2019

This file predates the PR. It's just being restored at this time.

share/qt/org.bitcoin.bitcoin-qt.desktop.in

		@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
		[Desktop Entry]
		Encoding=UTF-8

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hebasto Jan 9, 2019

Desktop Entry Specification:

The Encoding key is deprecated.

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luke-jr commented Jan 10, 2019

org.bitcoin.bitcoin-qt.desktop is required to match QAPP_ORG_DOMAIN, which we have set to "bitcoin.org" for some reason. (Changing that is out of scope for this PR)

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laanwj commented Jan 16, 2019

org.bitcoin.bitcoin-qt.desktop is required to match QAPP_ORG_DOMAIN, which we have set to "bitcoin.org" for some reason.

I think what he means is the second part, suggesting replacing - with _

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luke-jr commented Feb 11, 2019

Ok, renamed it

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build: set minimum supported macOS to 10.14 #20419 (build: set minimum supported macOS to 10.14 by fanquake)
Disable and fix tests for when BDB is not compiled #20267 (Disable and fix tests for when BDB is not compiled by achow101)
wallet: Make BDB support optional #20202 (wallet: Make BDB support optional by achow101)
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A6GibKm commented Aug 15, 2019 •

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Consider adding a appdata as in
https://github.com/MarcoFalke/flathub/blob/f3d313f7991f6fec14f7ddc2c0fec19973f69814/org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt.appdata.xml
This should be installed to {~/.local,/usr/local}/share/metainfo/bitcoin.appdata.xml (or less desirably to /usr/share...)

EDIT: Correct link https://github.com/flathub/org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt/blob/master/org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt.metainfo.xml

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Add ability to integrate the client with desktop environment on Linux bitcoin-core/gui#38

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hebasto commented Aug 4, 2020

The alternative approach is bitcoin-core/gui#38 that does not require make install, and works with downloaded official binaries.

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August 20, 2020 15:56


          configure: Option --without-xdg to disable future XDG data installation

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          MOVEONLY: Rename bitcoin.svg to bitcoin128.svg

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The latter is the common icon name used everywhere


          Install bitcoin128.svg as an icon

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          Install .desktop file for GUI

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          Make .desktop file more complete

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          fixup! Install bitcoin128.svg as an icon

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          fixup! Install bitcoin128.svg as an icon

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          fixup! Install .desktop file for GUI

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          fixup! Install .desktop file for GUI

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luke-jr commented Aug 20, 2020

Consider adding a appdata as in
https://github.com/MarcoFalke/flathub/blob/f3d313f7991f6fec14f7ddc2c0fec19973f69814/org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt.appdata.xml

Dead link.

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luke-jr commented Aug 20, 2020

Rebased

A6GibKm commented Aug 20, 2020

Sorry about that, here is the working link. Which I just realized needs the 0.20.1 release.

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luke-jr commented Aug 20, 2020

Which XDG standard defines this?

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build, qt: Add SVG support, and replace bitcoin PNG image with SVG one #19780

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A6GibKm commented Sep 13, 2020

The Desktop file fails desktop-file-validate

$ desktop-file-validate org.bitcoin.bitcoin_qt.desktop.in
org.bitcoin.bitcoin_qt.desktop: warning: key "Encoding" in group "Desktop Entry" is deprecated
org.bitcoin.bitcoin_qt.desktop: hint: value "Office;Finance;P2P;Network;Qt;" for key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" contains more than one main category; application might appear more than once in the application menu

Consider renaming to org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt to match the already existing flatpak at https://github.com/flathub/org.bitcoincore.bitcoin-qt.

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maflcko commented Mar 22, 2022

This has been needing rebase for about 2 years, so I am closing for now. Can be reopened any time, just let us know when.

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