Jeremy White wrote:
So my need is to figure out where to stick a .desktop file so that
it will show up in her menu and will correctly launch my app.
If you choose an /opt prefix, the .desktop file should be in
/opt/app-name/share/applications
That means the user has to set it up to see it and to
If you choose an /opt prefix, the .desktop file should be in
/opt/app-name/share/applications
Gah You are not understanding.
I am giving the *user* the choice of where to install
the software to. They can pick /blamblam if they
feel like it.
And if they do pick /blamblam, it is
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:42 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:02 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
We're in violent agreement then. Lets start by getting the actual spec
additions in, and then we can start using it in steps.
Yes we are. Indeed. Getting all this in and
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:25:15 +0100, Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:46 +0100, Christian Westgaard wrote:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
Does not specify the location of the
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:34 +0100, Christian Westgaard wrote:
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:14:03 +0100, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:46 +0100, Christian Westgaard wrote:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:51:25 +0100, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:34 +0100, Christian Westgaard wrote:
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:14:03 +0100, Matthias Clasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:46 +0100, Christian Westgaard wrote:
Linux (or Unixes afaict) does not work that way. For better or worse,
you are not meant to be able to do that.
With all due respect, I find that hard to believe.
You are saying that you are not meant to be able to create
a menu entry programatically? That you can only do it
with ./configure
Christian Westgaard píše v Út 07. 02. 2006 v 15:45 +0100:
But you can use:
update-desktop-database 2/dev/null || true
Or specifically in current version of SuSE:
SuSEconfig --module desktop-file-utils
It is started after installation of any package.
I thought the idea was, not to
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:52:39PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
Daniel Stone wrote:
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:40:56PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
And what about adding pkg-config file desktop-file-utils.pc, as other
packages do. It can provide correct value of prefix, bindir etc.
Daniel Stone píše v Út 07. 02. 2006 v 15:55 +:
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:52:39PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
In difference to PATH (and which binary), pkg-config is intended to
answer questions like:
- Is package desktop-file-utils installed?
if which desktop-file-utils
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:40:56PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
Christian Westgaard p??e v ?t 07. 02. 2006 v 15:45 +0100:
But you can use:
update-desktop-database 2/dev/null || true
Or specifically in current version of SuSE:
SuSEconfig --module desktop-file-utils
It is
Aaron J. Seigo writes:
For historical reasons, binary compatibility and lack of features in RPM
it is not easy to move.
symlinks?
If you replace directory by symlink during version update, RPM will
delete your new files.
Once RPM will be able to do this correctly, it would be easy to
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 14:39, Jeremy White wrote:
If you choose an /opt prefix, the .desktop file should be in
/opt/app-name/share/applications
Gah You are not understanding.
I am giving the *user* the choice of where to install
the software to. They can pick /blamblam if
loki-setup has special handling for desktop files. It will by itself
try to automatically determine what kind of files are required and
where to install them. So you as packager do not have to care. It
doesn't support xdg desktop files yet though. loki-setup follows a
Right; and part of what
Jeremy White wrote:
The whole problem is when you say 'try $XDG_DATA_DIRS', what
exactly does that mean? I'm trying to write a single .desktop file;
do I write it to every directory listed in $XDG_DATA_DIRS? Do I write
it just to the first directory, or do I (my personal favorite) write
it to
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 18:31, Thiago Macieira wrote:
Jeremy White wrote:
The whole problem is when you say 'try $XDG_DATA_DIRS', what
exactly does that mean? I'm trying to write a single .desktop file;
do I write it to every directory listed in $XDG_DATA_DIRS? Do I write
it just to
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 11:17, Kevin Krammer wrote:
Maybe freedeskop.org should specify a file where the variables have to be
defined, something like /etc/xdg.conf
Something like
if environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS is set, use the directories listed
there to look for file. If not set
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 10:59, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 11:17, Kevin Krammer wrote:
Maybe freedeskop.org should specify a file where the variables have to be
defined, something like /etc/xdg.conf
Something like
if environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS is set,
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 07:19:31 -0700 Aaron J. Seigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled:
On Friday 03 February 2006 03:32, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
OK - for now i've dropped the menu stuff. i've attached a much mroe
detailed description of spec additions in the new_systray.txt. please read
it over and
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