Re: [gentoo-desktop] Put program in menu

[J.A.H.]

Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 01:16 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: J.A.H. wrote: Why when I emerge an x-windows package it only sometimes installs itself in the gnome menu system (depending upon the program). Other times I have to manually put the program in in addition to manually selecting an icon to go with it in the gnome menu. Some of my installed x-windows programs are not in my gnome menu so for that reason I do not know they are installed after I install them. What is the recommended (gentoo) procedure for setting up the little program launchers in the gnome menu??? You are probably after the make_desktop_entry function in eutils.eclass. You can submit patches for ebuilds that don't install desktop entries to bugs.gentoo.org. A *much* better solution is to have upstream create a .desktop entry. I know that most people really don't like having bugs for the menu entries being filed, while others don't care either way. Personally, I'd add them, but going through and carpet-bombing bugzilla with trivial things such as this that really belong upstream will probably get at least somebody upset with you. Personally, I would go upstream with the package authors and have them provide a .desktop file instead of having us do it. You know what... I could not find a complete GUI program to automate making entries in the gnome menu system. Do I have to manually edit gnome configuration files just to put a quick launch button in the gnome menu!? Doing that would be trivial... I would not mind submitting bug reports but now I am confused about who to contact about that next time. Is this the right mail-list for a topic such as this? The gentoo-user mail list had a lot of volume when I was subscribed to it last time. Is this list for any subject about using X-Windows.