Hi Hamish!
  my apologies for indirectly causing you to type all that explanation
Really, I just want to add the OpenLayers icon in the right place!
 
  best from California
    -Brian
 
 
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:23:16 -0700 (PDT), Hamish  wrote:
Brian:
 > > there is an (ugly) icon for OpenLayers at
 > >   http://www.openlayers.org/images/OpenLayers.trac.png
 >
 > perhaps put the name of the project over it in a paint program
 > with the last few letters of the project name over the existing
 > icon? anything else on their site?
 >
 >
 > > the sequence in install_desktop.sh looks really fragile to me
 >
 > and yet it works well, so please don't break it. :-)
 >
 >
 > > Q. in /usr/share/applications/*.desktop, many files have
 > > the osgeo- prefix,
 >
 > right. in order to build our menu we've got to play with the
 > keywords in the Categories= section of the *.desktop file.
 > I'm not saying that it's sane, but it's what Xfce makes us do.
 > To avoid breaking the existing menus we make a duplicate copy
 > for the modified version and call it osgeo-*.desktop. It's a
 > few bytes of redundancy, but too small to matter.
 >
 >
 > >       What puts that there?  I dont think each install_*sh
 > > does it
 >
 > no, install_desktop.sh does that. Applications should simply
 > place a copy of their icon on the desktop, and leave all the
 > dirty work of building the menu to the install_desktop script.
 >
 > This is easier for the both the project script maintainers and
 > for the desktop menu maintainer (me), as the ugly stuff only
 > needs to be edited in a single place.
 >
 >
 > You can look at the sahaha and ushahidi install scripts for
 > an example of creating a firefox launcher.
 >
 >
 > regards,
 > Hamish
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >

 


_______________________________________________
Live-demo mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc

Reply via email to