From: Johannes Thyssen Tishman <jtt@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: FreeCAD org.freecad.FreeCAD.desktop
To: "Heppler, J. Scott" <shep971@spectrum.net>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:45:48 +0000

2025-08-11T12:00:06-0700 "Heppler, J. Scott" <shep971@spectrum.net>:
> First off, thanks for all the effort in porting FreeCAD.  I followed the
> development and the skill and effort was evident.

Hi Scott. Sorry for the late reply. I'm happy to see that there are some
testers of FreeCAD already :)

> CAD drafting and 3D printing is a rapidly growing, competitive area with
> essentially non-existent design rights in Cloud based solutions.  Worse
> yet, some slicing programs upload to a LAN 3D printer via off-shore
> servers.  OpenBSD privacy and security features make it a very attractive
> platform for device engineering and development.
> 
> 
> I did notice that FreeCAD does not start via the *.desktop file.
> 
> To test, I copied the file to ~/.local/share/applications and edited
> Exec=FreeCAD - --single-instance %F
> to
> Exec=freecad - --single-instance %F
> 
> The ~/.local version works.  I also checked "FreeCAD" is in the upstream
> code base.
> 
> Not sure if we're missing a FreeCAD start script or upstream is
> incorrect.

Thanks for reporting this. The problem here is that we link the binary
in lowercase:

$ grep -A2 post-install cad/freecad/Makefile
post-install:
	ln -s ${LOCALBASE}/lib/freecad/bin/FreeCAD ${PREFIX}/bin/freecad
	ln -s ${LOCALBASE}/lib/freecad/bin/FreeCADCmd ${PREFIX}/bin/freecad-cmd

This is just preference, but now I wonder if it was a bad decision. I
suggest that we keep the binary as is for now and patch the .desktop
file. If this causes further issues in the future, I'll revert to the
original name. What do you think? Diff below. Ok?

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/cad/freecad/Makefile,v
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.3 Makefile
--- Makefile	12 Aug 2025 08:16:33 -0000	1.3
+++ Makefile	13 Aug 2025 22:39:51 -0000
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ COMMENT =		general purpose parametric 3D
 
 V =			1.0.1
 PKGNAME =		${DISTNAME:L}
+REVISION =		0
 
 GH_ACCOUNT =		FreeCAD
 GH_PROJECT =		FreeCAD
Index: patches/patch-src_XDGData_org_freecad_FreeCAD_desktop
===================================================================
RCS file: patches/patch-src_XDGData_org_freecad_FreeCAD_desktop
diff -N patches/patch-src_XDGData_org_freecad_FreeCAD_desktop
--- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ patches/patch-src_XDGData_org_freecad_FreeCAD_desktop	13 Aug 2025 22:39:51 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Index: src/XDGData/org.freecad.FreeCAD.desktop
+--- src/XDGData/org.freecad.FreeCAD.desktop.orig
++++ src/XDGData/org.freecad.FreeCAD.desktop
+@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ GenericName[de]=CAD-Anwendung
+ GenericName[ko]=CAD 응용프로그램
+ GenericName[pl]=Aplikacja CAD
+ GenericName[ru]=Система автоматизированного проектирования
+-Exec=FreeCAD - --single-instance %F
++Exec=freecad - --single-instance %F
+ Terminal=false
+ Type=Application
+ Icon=org.freecad.FreeCAD