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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 01:16 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> J.A.H. wrote: |
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> > Why when I emerge an x-windows package it only sometimes installs itself |
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> > in the gnome menu system (depending upon the program). Other times I |
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> > have to manually put the program in in addition to manually selecting |
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> > an icon to go with it in the gnome menu. Some of my installed x-windows |
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> > programs are not in my gnome menu so for that reason I do not know they |
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> > are installed after I install them. What is the recommended (gentoo) |
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> > procedure for setting up the little program launchers in the gnome menu??? |
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> |
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> You are probably after the make_desktop_entry function in eutils.eclass. |
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> You can submit patches for ebuilds that don't install desktop entries |
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> to bugs.gentoo.org. |
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A *much* better solution is to have upstream create a .desktop entry. I |
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know that most people really don't like having bugs for the menu entries |
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being filed, while others don't care either way. Personally, I'd add |
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them, but going through and carpet-bombing bugzilla with trivial things |
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such as this that really belong upstream will probably get at least |
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somebody upset with you. Personally, I would go upstream with the |
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package authors and have them provide a .desktop file instead of having |
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us do it. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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