Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-09 Thread dannym
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 08.09.2005, 18:54 -0300 schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho: On 9/8/05, Tony Maro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Pelton wrote: Oh, I did miss this little documentation tidbit: If $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is either not set or empty,

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-09 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 9/9/05, dannym [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,sysconfdir is a automake/autoconf variable that is f.e. setby ./configure --sysconfdir=/etcDefault is /etc for some packages and ${prefix}/etc for others.datadir, likewise. Default ${prefix}/share Documentation in Linux often assumes that the programs

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-09 Thread Tony Maro
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 9/9/05, *dannym* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, sysconfdir is a automake/autoconf variable that is f.e. set by ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc Default is /etc for some packages and ${prefix}/etc for others.

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-08 Thread Razvan Adrian Bogdan
On 9/7/05, L505 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I myself dont use desktop icons but I can relate why they might me nice... (like immediately being visible after logging in, freely positionable) if I had a larger screen, they might be actually useful, but as-is, they are _always_ covered by

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-08 Thread Tony Maro
dannym wrote: I myself dont use desktop icons but I can relate why they might me nice... (like immediately being visible after logging in, freely positionable) if I had a larger screen, they might be actually useful, but as-is, they are _always_ covered by about = 5 full screen windows, so I

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-08 Thread barko
Look here, installbase create kde/gnome icons... look in source. http://installbase.sourceforge.net/main.shtml Dne četrtek 8. septembra 2005 18:38 je Tony Maro napisal(a): dannym wrote: I myself dont use desktop icons but I can relate why they might me nice... (like immediately being visible

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-08 Thread Tony Pelton
On 9/8/05, Tony Maro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm still no closer to writing an install utility that will install menu icons. -Tony and as per my earlier post ... you've seen this ? http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fdesktop_2dentry_2dspec ... and this ?

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-08 Thread Tony Maro
Tony Pelton wrote: On 9/8/05, Tony Maro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm still no closer to writing an install utility that will install menu icons. -Tony and as per my earlier post ... you've seen this ? http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fdesktop_2dentry_2dspec Yes,

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-08 Thread Tony Maro
Tony Pelton wrote: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apc.html those specs look like they cover at least the KDE and Gnome case fairly well. Oh, I did miss this little documentation tidbit: If $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to /etc/xdg should

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-08 Thread Andrew Haines
Andrew Haines wrote: Tony Maro wrote: I'm still not finding a way to edit the individual user menu - every method I've seen requires being root. For gnome it shold be possible to edit the xml file: ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info and then create

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-08 Thread Juan Martinez
--- Andrew Haines [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Andrew Haines wrote: Tony Maro wrote: I'm still not finding a way to edit the individual user menu - every method I've seen requires being root. For gnome it shold be possible to edit the xml file:

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-07 Thread L505
I myself dont use desktop icons but I can relate why they might me nice... (like immediately being visible after logging in, freely positionable) if I had a larger screen, they might be actually useful, but as-is, they are _always_ covered by about = 5 full screen windows, so I wouldnt see

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-07 Thread Tony Pelton
i don't know if this will help this conversation but : i use Gentoo. Gentoo supports a _bunch_ of desktop/window managers. i use KDE mostly. i _know_, as had been said here, that there is a standard for this out there. i think freedesktop.org might be a starting point for the standard. when

[lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-06 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
Tony Maro wrote: I can throw an icon on the desktop pretty darn easy, but the menu's still escape me and the directions I've seen online so far are cryptic at best. -Tony How do you put the desktop icons? I know they are located at ~/Desktop/ but I usually deploy my programs in .rpm

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-06 Thread dannym
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 06.09.2005, 10:34 -0300 schrieb Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho: Tony Maro wrote: I can throw an icon on the desktop pretty darn easy, but the menu's still escape me and the directions I've seen online so far are cryptic at best. -Tony How do you put the desktop

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-06 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 9/6/05, dannym [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: errr?no. Just for the one user that installed or uses the program, of course.Or still better, none. Put it in the application menu. I usually deploy on RedHat Package Manager (RPM) packages. The package contains a bash script that is executed as

Re: [lazarus] Re: Menu icons in KDE / Gnome

2005-09-06 Thread Tony Maro
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On 9/6/05, *dannym* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: errr? no. Just for the one user that installed or uses the program, of course. Or still better, none. Put it in the application menu. I usually deploy on RedHat