Bug 689028

Summary:	Remove desktop file to launch in a terminal
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Component:	htop	Assignee:	Milos Jakubicek <xjakub>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	metherid, xjakub
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Description Owen Taylor 2011-03-18 20:54:34 UTC

A console program launched in a terminal doesn't really act like an application - you can open other tabs and have the terminal menu there, it shows up as a terminal in desktop navigation (alt-tab, gnome activities overview, etc)

In addition, if we shipped desktop files for every curses application, our menus would get cluttered with hundreds of "applications" that would be very confusing to most users. htop is not significantly different from top, pico, vi, minicom, etc, etc.

For this reason, we did a massive cleanup of terminal applications from the menus around the Red Hat Linux 6 timeframe, and have avoided shipping them in Red Hat Linux and Fedora ever since then.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2011-03-19 06:51:16 UTC

htop-0.9-2.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/htop-0.9-2.fc15

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2011-03-26 05:09:16 UTC

htop-0.9-2.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.