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 > > > > >
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