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Betterbird is a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird. Here are the patches that provide all the goodness.
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Include .desktop file in linux build tar #229

Closed ishanarora closed 3 months ago

ishanarora commented 8 months ago
Betterbird commented 8 months ago

The project provides a .desktop file which you can tailor to your needs. We use the Mozilla build tools (./mach package) to build the .tar.bz2 and for some reason Mozilla have no provision to include a desktop file. FlatPak and Arch AUR already ship one.

It would be some effort to change our build script to include the .desktop file. Since there were no complaints since 2021, this issue doesn't appear to have high priority. Can you submit a PR?

ishanarora commented 8 months ago

Agreed. It's low priority, perhaps not worth the effort.

Betterbird commented 3 months ago

This is not planned. We have an installation script now which produces a desktop file and adjusts it based on install location. This is more useful than packaging the desktop file.

https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/blob/main/install-on-linux/install-betterbird.sh