Re: Suggest A debian-style menu system for guix

2017-05-02 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
As some have noted, there are hooks to make FreeDesktop standard .desktop files. However, there is an important note: While this works well with GuixSD users, it might make Guix users' host desktop not start correctly if, for clarification, Guix advises the user to add the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable

Re: Suggest A debian-style menu system for guix

2017-05-02 Thread Chris Marusich
Adonay Felipe Nogueira writes: > Personally, I find .desktop files better suited for this. Place each of > them in "$HOME/.local/share/applications" directory. > > More information about the FreeDesktop .desktop standard can be found > at: >

Re: Suggest A debian-style menu system for guix

2017-05-01 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Personally, I find .desktop files better suited for this. Place each of them in "$HOME/.local/share/applications" directory. More information about the FreeDesktop .desktop standard can be found at: [[https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/]]. As it evidences, GNOME has

Re: Suggest A debian-style menu system for guix

2017-04-24 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 24.04.2017 um 14:48 schrieb Feng Shu: > All I want to say is that: we *must* add menu info in "package define" > if users of this package *real need* a menu instead of waiting upstream > to write a .desktop. Well, if there is no desktop file, wouldn't it be sufficient to add one? --

Re: Suggest A debian-style menu system for guix

2017-04-24 Thread William Seddon
On 24 April 2017 at 11:28, Feng Shu wrote: > #+BEGIN_COMMENT > Before the advent of update-menus, when the sysadmin installed a package > onto a Debian system, they would need to edit various window manager config > files to make the new program show up on, for example, fvwm's

Re: Suggest A debian-style menu system for guix

2017-04-24 Thread Feng Shu
ng0 writes: > Feng Shu transcribed 1.5K bytes: >> ng0 writes: >> >> > tumashu transcribed 1.0K bytes: >> >> Debian menu system >> >> (https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ch3.html) is a >> >> very useful tool, >> >> is it possible

Re: Suggest A debian-style menu system for guix

2017-04-24 Thread ng0
Feng Shu transcribed 1.5K bytes: > ng0 writes: > > > tumashu transcribed 1.0K bytes: > >> Debian menu system > >> (https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ch3.html) is a > >> very useful tool, > >> is it possible develop a similar tool for guix? > > > >

Re: Suggest A debian-style menu system for guix

2017-04-24 Thread Feng Shu
ng0 writes: > tumashu transcribed 1.0K bytes: >> Debian menu system >> (https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ch3.html) is a very >> useful tool, >> is it possible develop a similar tool for guix? > > Could you explain what this exactly does? > > The

Suggest A debian-style menu system for guix

2017-04-24 Thread tumashu
Debian menu system (https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ch3.html) is a very useful tool, is it possible develop a similar tool for guix?