Re: [gentoo-desktop] Put program in menu

[Petteri Räty]

J.A.H. wrote:
> Why when I emerge an x-windows package it only sometimes installs itself
> in the gnome menu system (depending upon the program). Other times I
> have to manually  put the program in in addition to manually selecting
> an icon to go with it in the gnome menu.  Some of my installed x-windows
> programs are not in my gnome menu so for that reason I do not know they
> are installed after I install them. What is the recommended (gentoo)
> procedure for setting up the little program launchers in the gnome menu???

You are probably after the make_desktop_entry function in eutils.eclass.
 You can submit patches for ebuilds that don't install desktop entries
to bugs.gentoo.org.

Regards,
Petteri