Re: fixing missing launch icons

2012-11-23 Thread Beeblebrox
I corrected the other error and installed textproc/goldendict. when I run $ update-desktop-database, I get error: Could not parse file /usr/local/share/applications/emma.desktop: Key file does not start with a group I cannot find any reference to the error or to group in the *.desktop standard.

Re: fixing missing launch icons

2012-11-11 Thread Beeblebrox
This whole thing makes just absolutely no sense! None of my hand-added items appear in the launch menu (and I have tried several). Of the menu items that already exist, I am able to remove multiple entries and bring them down to single entry, but I am not able to change the category to something

Re: fixing missing launch icons

2012-11-11 Thread Boris Samorodov
11.11.2012 12:58, Beeblebrox пишет: This whole thing makes just absolutely no sense! None of my hand-added items appear in the launch menu (and I have tried several). Of the menu items that already exist, I am able to remove multiple entries and bring them down to single entry, but I am not

Re: fixing missing launch icons

2012-11-11 Thread Beeblebrox
Thanks for that suggestion. I will try it. When I checked the depends of that port I realized that I have another problem and maybe the reason for this problem is related to it. I have posted the problem here:

Re: fixing missing launch icons

2012-11-11 Thread Boris Samorodov
11.11.2012 14:35, Beeblebrox пишет: Also, to be sure: I must run *$ update-desktop-database* after each port install if the port is a desktop app right? AFAIK, yes. BTW, and after such port is deinstalled. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To

Re: fixing missing launch icons

2012-11-10 Thread Beeblebrox
Unfortunately, it was too soon to tag the problem solved. I tried an entry like so: Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Emma-SQL GenericName=Emma-SQL Comment=Emma-SQL Manager TryExec=emma Exec=emma Icon=emma Type=Application Categories=Programming Directory=Programming 1. This did not show up anywhere in any

Re: fixing missing launch icons

2012-11-10 Thread Da Rock
On 11/11/12 04:08, Beeblebrox wrote: Unfortunately, it was too soon to tag the problem solved. I tried an entry like so: Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Emma-SQL GenericName=Emma-SQL Comment=Emma-SQL Manager TryExec=emma Exec=emma Icon=emma Type=Application Categories=Programming

Re: fixing missing launch icons

2012-11-09 Thread Lars Engels
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:49:22PM +, Olivier Duchateau wrote: 2012/11/9 Beeblebrox zap...@berentweb.com: Some ports fail to create the launch icon (menu item) in the desktop menu. To correct this, one is to add in /usr/local/share/application a file by portname.desktop like so:

Re: fixing missing launch icons

2012-11-09 Thread Beeblebrox
Lars Engels-2 wrote But for desktop applications port maintainers should create one: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html#desktop-entries Corrrect, and hence my question. It looks like the variable I was looking for is Directory for sub-menu placement. Thanks for the