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