debian/changelog

+xmedcon (0.16.1+dfsg-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add desktop file (thanks for the patch to thies@jochimsen.de)
+    Closes: #924017
+  * Remove Debian menu file since there is now a desktop file
+
+ -- Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>  Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:56:33 +0100
+
 xmedcon (0.16.1+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream version

debian/medcon.install

 debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/medcon.1
 debian/tmp/usr/bin/medcon
+debian/*.desktop	/usr/share/applications/

debian/xmedcon.desktop

+[Desktop Entry]                                                                                                                                                                            
+Encoding=UTF-8                                                                                                                                                                             
+GenericName=Medical Image Conversion Tool                                                                                                                                                  
+Name=XMedCon                                                                                                                                                                               
+Exec=xmedcon %f                                                                                                                                                                            
+TryExec=xmedcon                                                                                                                                                                            
+Type=Application                                                                                                                                                                           
+Terminal=false                                                                                                                                                                             
+Categories=Education;Graphics;Science;Medicine;MedicalSoftware;Viewer;                                                                                                                     
+Icon=xmedcon.xpm                                                                                                                                                                           
+

debian/xmedcon.menu

-?package(xmedcon):needs="X11" section="Applications/Science/Medicine"\
-  title="xmedcon" command="/usr/bin/xmedcon"\
-  icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/xmedcon.xpm"