On 4/19/07, Frederic Crozat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 18 avril 2007 à 02:14 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > I am working on enhancing some of the "deployment friendly" stuff in > > GNOME as a part of my Google SoC, and one of the things I am working > > on is support for predefined global items on the desktop. To make my > > current goal clearer, here's a sample use case (stolen shamelessly > > from a doc by my mentor, Federico Mena Quintero). > > > > > Comments/suggestions/brickbats would be highly appreciated :) > > Well, you could use and/or integrate a patch we have been using in > Mandriva package for nautilus : for a very long time, we have been > putting merging dynamically .desktop from a system wide directory, > mostly for hot pluggable devices, like webcam, to put a launcher for > ekiga (this is an example). > > Patch for this is available at > http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/nautilus/current/SOURCES/nautilus-2.5.1-dynamic.patch?revision=5839&view=markup > > it is using symlink to be able to handle files disappearing when > nautilus is not running but anyway, it could be used as a basis or > anything for your work. >
Thanks a ton for that :-) You made my work a lot easier. Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
