Bug#473892: desktop-base: about debian item in the gnome system menu
On dim, 2008-10-26 at 11:06 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: They don't appear here either because you install them in completely the wrong directory for them to be seen by freedesktop-compliant desktop systems like KDE/GNOME/XFCE/etc. They also don't contain any categories, which are needed to put them in the right place in the menu. Yeah sure. I don't really what they're intended for in the first place. But what I suggested is to put a .desktop in /usr/share/application which would open a link in sensible-browser with the text you linked. Would it make sense? I imagine the stuff in /usr/share/desktop-base/profiles is completely the wrong place too, unless xdg and kde are patched to look there. I don't know for kde and gnome (but would assume the same), but for Xfce we added /usr/share/desktop-base/profiles to XDG_CONFIG_DIR. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#473892: desktop-base: about debian item in the gnome system menu
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 08:52 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Yeah sure. I don't really what they're intended for in the first place. But what I suggested is to put a .desktop in /usr/share/application which would open a link in sensible-browser with the text you linked. Would it make sense? Yes, much more than the current situation. Looks like the current situation was a misguided attempt to put something on the menu. I imagine the stuff in /usr/share/desktop-base/profiles is completely the wrong place too, unless xdg and kde are patched to look there. I don't know for kde and gnome (but would assume the same), but for Xfce we added /usr/share/desktop-base/profiles to XDG_CONFIG_DIR. Hmmm, OK. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#473892: desktop-base: about debian item in the gnome system menu
I guess we could ship a .desktop file with a link to some descriptive text. Currently we ship three .desktop files with links to debian homepage, security and reference. They don't appear in my Xfce system but maybe they appear in GNOME menu? Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#473892: desktop-base: about debian item in the gnome system menu
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 00:20 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: I guess we could ship a .desktop file with a link to some descriptive text. Currently we ship three .desktop files with links to debian homepage, security and reference. They don't appear in my Xfce system but maybe they appear in GNOME menu? They don't appear here either because you install them in completely the wrong directory for them to be seen by freedesktop-compliant desktop systems like KDE/GNOME/XFCE/etc. They also don't contain any categories, which are needed to put them in the right place in the menu. I imagine the stuff in /usr/share/desktop-base/profiles is completely the wrong place too, unless xdg and kde are patched to look there. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#473892: desktop-base: about debian item in the gnome system menu
Package: desktop-base Version: 4.0.7 Severity: wishlist In this image, you can see an About Fedora menu item: http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/6172.html I've no idea what it does, but it would be nice if Debian had something similar and I think desktop-base (a badly-named package IMO) is the right place for this kind of functionality. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#473892: desktop-base: about debian item in the gnome system menu
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 15:58 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: In this image, you can see an About Fedora menu item: http://qa-rockstar.livejournal.com/6172.html I've no idea what it does, but it would be nice if Debian had something similar and I think desktop-base (a badly-named package IMO) is the right place for this kind of functionality. Hi, I had a look at this. It launches Yelp and displays a short introduction about Fedora, links to common resources and further documentation, and a section about getting involved. It's basically something like the information about Debian in the release notes. I'm attaching the XML file in case someone wants to have a look. I guess there's no reason we can't do the same, but I'm not sure how translations should be handled? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 about-fedora.xml Description: application/docbook signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
