Hi, would any of the Linux packagers/users like to give these patches a test?
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:09 PM, José Ignacio <[email protected]> wrote: > As for the motivation behind this annoying to apply patch, it's quite > simple: desktop integration with linux as it is right now is fairly > broken, some mime types are set incorrectly and the icons are not > installed correctly (in a way that the desktop can use them). There > might be some downstream patches done by packagers to patch it up, but > this should make it unnecessary. > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:59 PM, José Ignacio <[email protected]> wrote: >> Patch 1: Fix resources/linux/mime/mime/packages/kicad.xml by changing >> the extension to .kicad_pcb (was set to .brd which is the old one), >> the mimetype name itself is corrected to "application/x-kicad-pcb" to >> agree with the .application files. It also renames the package to >> kicad-kicad.xml to conform to the XDG convention that calls for a >> vendor-product.xml format [1] >> >> Patch 2: Remove the resources/linux/mime/mimelnk folder. mimelnk >> hasn't been used since KDE 3, If someone is still using bleeding edge >> KiCad and KDE3 together they are used to patching things, so >> maintaining those files themselves shouldn't be too much to ask. >> >> Patch 3: Clean up the applications/*.destop files. Put all keys in >> consistent order and remove/fix bogus mime types, some assigned to >> programs that don't even open files. Those files could use some TLC >> from translators and people better at words than me to improve the >> wording and provide translated names and tooltips, i preserved some of >> the french that was already in the files. >> >> Patch 4: Fix hicolor icons. This renames (well, actually regenerates >> from the originals) all the icons installed on Linux to match the >> correct mime type names, and adds all the missing icons in some sizes. >> This is not a diff because it's mostly binaries, I prepared a tarball >> with the new contents of the resources/linux/mime/icons folder, to >> apply just delete that directory and unzip patch-4.tar.gz in it's >> place. >> >> To generate the new icons directory I put together a very hackish >> python script called mk_icons.py which must be called from >> resources/linux/mime. the script reads the .application files and the >> kicad-kicad.xml mime package file, reconciles mime types and >> application icons and generates the right icons for the applications >> and mimetypes from the originals in bitmaps_png/sources. It also warns >> if the xml and .application files go out of sync. >> >> I tested these changes on Debian Testing with Gnome3 and they work >> perfectly, I can open kicad files from nautilus directly after doing a >> make install and update-mime. If someone could give this a try on >> other Linux distros it'd be great. Worst case i don't think it'd work >> worse than before. >> >> Thanks! >> José _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
