Files required for integration with a Linux distribution

[mavit]

Here are various files required to integrate an application with the Linux desktop. If these files could be included with the Arduino source, Linux distributors wouldn't have to each maintain their own copies.

[cmaglie]

@mavit
most of your commits was manually merged with #1727 into ide-1.5.x branch, I think that we miss only the startup script but that seems to be Debian specific? may we close this pull request?

Also the executable flag was fixed in a past commit by @ffissore if I remember well.

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[mavit]

Thanks!

The startup script changes were actually written for Fedora, and were picked up by Debian/Ubuntu, to prompt the user that they need additional permissions to access the USB port. The exact mechanism is likely to vary a little from distribution to distribution, though, so you perhaps wouldn't want to include this functionality in the binary Arduino download.

[mavit]

There's one more file that hasn't been merged, the .appdata.xml file, which contains data required to list Arduino in new "app stores" for Linux (see, e.g., https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AppDataGnomeSoftware). It's proposed by the people working on these app stores that this file should go upstream if possible, because the upstream developers are those best-placed to describe their application.

[matthijskooijman]

Oh, overlooked that one. I added it in #1730.

[cmaglie]

Merged also #1730 thanks!