> Chris Morley wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > John T emailed me about adding a checkbutton to stepconf
> > to create a desktop launcher for the machine-named conf.
> >
>
> Desktop shortcuts and launchers are very dependent on the windowing
> system aren't they? What happens when someone uses stepconf to build a
> config for a system running KDE or icewm or Xfce instead of Gnome?
I don't know for sure ( I will check) but the call to make the shortcut
doesn't seem specific to gnome, KDE should make the equivalent shortcut
with the same command.
I will point out that the EMC configuration picker has the option to
create a desktop launcher. Will it not work in KDE etc?
> If you are going to provide a button that does something Gnome specific,
> then you should figure out how to detect the presence of Gnome, and
> don't display that button if you aren't in a Gnome environment.
If it's is specific to gnome I will look into a gnome check.
Also the shortcut has a check button so the user can decide
not to create one.
>
> Personally I wouldn't bother - let the user make his own icon if he
> wants one. But then I'm always trying to force users to learn things,
> even when they don't want to.
Yes we don't quite see eye to eye on that.
>
> > I did create a checkbutton for a desktop shortcut to the
> > config files (I thought that is what he meant).
> >
>
> What does that shortcut do? Open the config file(s) in an editor?
>
It creates a symlink (shortcut) to the folder that holds all the config files
that stepcong just made.
Chris Morley
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