[rock-devel] Re: [rock-sm] 2004101714351410771 blindcoder new

[Andreas V. Meier]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:18:35AM +0200, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
> Inspired by Stefan's suggestion I've created 2004101910010221039.
> This patch contains:
> - implementation of .desktop support for icewm
> - implementation of package/*/*/*.desktop support for Build-Pkg
> - example package/blindcoder/kanatest/kanatest.desktop
> 
> In detail:
> Build-Pkg now installs package/*/*/*.desktop files to /usr/share/application,
> a somewhat "standard" place for .desktop files. The spec says to install
> to ${datadir}/*.desktop but that would make it nearly impossible to find
> them.
> I'm not absolutely sure but I think KDE and GNOME will find them there.
> 
> Now, what happens is this:
> IceWM calls rock-menu which in turn creates this:
> http://apollo.bingo-ev.de/~blindcoder/menu.png
The requested URL /~blindcoder/menu.png was not found on this server.
> 
> The Categories tag from the .desktop file is taken to create the
> submenu-hierarchy and the Name and Icon tag for creation of the Menu-Entry.
> Additionally, this menu isn't created from a static file but from a
> shell-script that runs on each icewm startup. This has the advantage that
> no manual interaction is required.
That slows login, no? What do you think about a stone menu that runs
this ... for every installed wm? Later it can be replaced by the
postinstall thing.
> 
> Well, almost none. We still have to create the .desktop files for several
> packages that don't have one already.
My initial idea was to grep for bin/ in all flists and add those as
.desktop's, but that would create many unneeded, no? What about console
applications, do you run them in a xterm?

What about using the ROCK category to sort the packages? That's why we
have it :)

To summarize:
- I don't like the thing run at every login
- I don't like the category to differ from [C]
- I like the rest


Ciao

Andreas
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