ok, i have the program going and installable for my local Linux distribution. aka i have it packaged and on PyPI and it runs from my local terminal command line.
i have people available for testing it out on Windows and a Mac, but i don't have any way of knowing what to do to make the program appear in their Menu system to make it clickable. in MATE (which is what i run here) i can figure it out as something to do with the desktop, so somehow i have to do that, but i don't know what keywords to even search for to do that, desktop icons i guess and menu, but is there a more global way to set that up? XDG seems to be a part of that. i'm figuring if i get it working for MATE that it should also work for Gnome. i haven't touched KDE in quite a few years. Windows i'll figure out after the more Linux/Posix systems. so my priorties are about like: 1. posix/other linux sytems (perhaps Macs fit into this anways) 2. Macs 3. Windows luckily i do have other examples of python 3 programs which seem to be multiple platform oriented that i can look at and see what they've done. so i won't be forever lost in the wilderness... thanks for help, :) ant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
