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On Wednesday 13 August 2003 23:08, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 16:38, Heinrich Wendel wrote: |
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> > > Where is all the work for this "Gentoo menu" being done? I would |
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> > > definitely like to be a part of it since I am very interested in it and |
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> > > would definitely like to see this come to fruition. |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-menu/?cvsroot=gentoo-src |
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> > and in irc between me and svyatogor ;) |
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> So how exactly are you going to work with ebuilds that already create |
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> menu entries in their various forms? What about ebuilds where we create |
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> them? For example, there is make_desktop_entry in eutils.eclass that |
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> was done by vapier and used by the games team. I don't know if anyone |
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> else uses it, but they probably should. |
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They have to change to use the new menu system. |
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> Which version of the freedesktop spec are you using? |
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Desktop Entry Spec 0.9.4: |
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http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec/0.9.4-onehtml/ |
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Menu Spec 0.5: |
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http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/0.5-onehtml/ |
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> Are you planning on changing all of the |
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> ebuilds which provide any form of .desktop entries? |
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At the moment i see no other way. |
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> What would an |
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> ebuild submitter need to do to make sure their ebuild's .desktop files |
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> meet the requirements? |
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I will create a validater. |
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> Would there have to be anything added to the |
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> ebuild to have the menus created properly, or is it done on-the-fly and |
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> transparently? |
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take a look at portage/domenu in cvs, so a ebuild would have to add one |
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command: domenu foo.directory |
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mfg, Heinrich :) |
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