On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, A.J. Venter wrote:
KDE and gnome will both check /usr/share/applications/ for desktop files,
so that's where your desktop file should go, to prevent inter-distro
issues, install your icon picture somewhere global as well, and set a
full path in the desktop file.
That won't work. Since all desktop-files are cached, this will only work
after a restart of gnome/kde or something.
So I would say: use the script, and don't place the files yourself.
(With the script you can also add categories, to place the menu-entry in
the right place
That script only EXISTS on fedora, and theproblem you point out exists only in
gnome. KDE monitors the menu directories and flushes the cache whenever they
change - e.g. you get near instant updates.
I'm trying to teach the freedesktop.org standards compatible way. Your menu
items should get installed as part of the package you build, and should work
regardless of what distribution or which desktop is being used. That is the
entire point of freedesktop.org, using a fedora specific script immediately
makes your package fedora specific, I would rather like it if his app could
also create a menu item which works on MY distro (we're not very big, only
5000 users in some of the poorest countries on earth), or any other distro
out there.
I second this. If the standard exists, it's better to use it...
It's up to GNOME to implement the standard as closely as possible.
Michael.
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