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drobilla / jalv

A simple fully-featured host for LV2 plugins
http://drobilla.net/software/jalv
ISC License
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Have an option to make jalv generate a desktop entry #29

Closed terencode closed 2 years ago

terencode commented 4 years ago

This would be useful if you want a quick way to launch a graphical lv2 plugin. Something along jalv --ui="gtk" --desktop-file URI which would save the .desktop under $XDG_DATA_HOME /applications/jalv/ by default.

drobilla commented 4 years ago

Hm, interesting idea. It's a bit strange, but seems like a nice way to "appify" plugins without having to do any work.

Probably makes more sense as a script though? I suspect that making this work well would require some additional options that don't fit so we'll in jalv itself, and adding a jalv_make_desktop_entry.py and shipping it with jalv would be easy.

terencode commented 4 years ago

Yes I agree, I'll try to write something and make a PR.

drobilla commented 2 years ago

Let's say b8a68cb is close enough.