Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:14:28 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .desktop file and icon Message-ID: <20080625091428.GB25514@darklight.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <200806250100.53227.danny@ricin.com> References: <200806250100.53227.danny@ricin.com>
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:00:53AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote:
> I have an app (kbtv2) that I want to get committed to ports soon.
>
> Where do I put the .desktop file and icon (or I'll just refer to the latter
> through absolute path) so that it gets picked up by the various desktop
> environments (prefix/share/applications/foo.desktop does not seem to work
> here in kde3)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
Try using update-desktop-database from devel/desktop-file-utils. Check
security/seahorse/{Makefile,pkg-plist}, for example, and
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/porting.html "Desktop database"
section (should be DE independent, though).
HTH,
Yuri
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