On 7 February 2010 20:31, brian <br...@meadows.pair.com> wrote: > > Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Creating symbolic links (ls -s <src> <target>) should suffice. But if you want to do it the "official" way by creating desktop shortcuts via the *.desktop files, then read the follow spec document. http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html For information on extending that idea and created menu entries in the Application menu, then following the next spec document. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/menu-spec?action=show&redirect=Standards%2Fmenu-spec You can also install the xdg-utils (normally include with modern distros), which has helper scripts you can use to more easily setup mime-types, associated applications, menu and desktop icons. http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/XdgUtils With my current project, fpgInstall, which is a single file GUI setup/installer application build with fpGUI Toolkit, I am building in support to programmatically creating of desktop icons and menu entries. Unfortunately the project is not complete - thus I am not releasing the source code yet. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
