Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:25:34 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: About .desktop file locations Message-ID: <4327D06E.10701@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <4327472D.2070108@FreeBSD.org> References: <432744F8.1060700@ebs.gr> <4327472D.2070108@FreeBSD.org>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> | Hi all,
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> | I've been browsing through the mail archive and the freebsd-gnome site,
> | but I can't seem to find an answer to this. I want to install a
> | .desktop file for integrating an application into the gnome and kde
> | menus. I see that installing it in ${X11BASE}/share/gnome/applications
> | makes gnome find it ok, but I was thinking that perhaps
> | ${LOCALBASE}/share/applications would be more appropriate and cross-DE.
> | Perusing the ports tree I see most gnome apps use the former, whereas
> | most kde apps use some variant of the latter, like
> | ${LOCALBASE}/share/kde/applications. So my question is, do we have a
> | "standard", DE-agnostic place for these files? Also, do I have to run
> | update-desktop-database after putting them in there?
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> Put it in ${LOCALBASE}/share/applications, and both should be able to
> use it. Yes, you should run update-desktop-database after installation.
Darn, I was sure I had tried it last night and failed, but it appears to
work now.
Thanks,
Panagiotis
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