Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:51:35 +0400 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Let's add more DESKTOP_ENTRIES to our ports Message-ID: <86ab1thliw.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090819153405.GC9942@hades.panopticon> (Dmitry Marakasov's message of "Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:34:05 %2B0400") References: <20090819153405.GC9942@hades.panopticon>
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Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> writes:
> To make adding DESKTOP_ENTRIES simple and fun, here's a script called
> "de" which outputs a template for desktop entry when run from port's
> directory:
>
> --- de begins here ---
> #!/bin/sh
>
> echo "DESKTOP_ENTRIES=\"`make -V PORTNAME`\" \\"
> echo " \"`make -V COMMENT`\" \\"
> echo " \"\${DATADIR}/\" \\"
> echo " \"`make -V PORTNAME`\" \\"
> echo " \"`make -V CATEGORIES | tr ' ' ';' | sed 's|$|;|' | sed 's|games|game|'`\" \\"
> echo " false"
> --- de ends here ---
Don't you need to run update-desktop-database during post-install?
It's not like using DESKTOPDIR or DESKTOP_ENTRIES adds appropriate
@exec/@unexec in plist for you.
>
> if you use vim, just type !!de while editing port's makefile, and
> it'll add template for you, which will require only a little editing:
>
> - change app name in the first line for proper spacing and case
> (i.e. brainworkshop -> Brain Workshop)
> - possibly simplify description in the second line (while leaving it
> equal to COMMENT is generally good enough)
> - Change icon path (some ports install icons into ${DATADIR},
I think such ports should be fixed to install icons into share/pixmaps.
> some (this likely only applies to games) have graphic sprites
> useable as icons, for others just list leave "" = no icon.
Can I use icons from dependency ports for ports that don't have icons
themselves, e.g. icons from audio/xmms2 for audio/gx2osd?
share/pixmaps/xmms2-128.png
share/pixmaps/xmms2-16.png
share/pixmaps/xmms2-32.png
share/pixmaps/xmms2-48.png
share/pixmaps/xmms2-black-on-white.svg
share/pixmaps/xmms2-white-on-black.svg
share/pixmaps/xmms2.svg
DESKTOP_ENTRIES="gx2osd" \
"On-screen display of current playing song for XMMS2" \
"xmms2" \
"gx2osd" \
"Audio;Player;" \
false
> - Fix categories. Full list here:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
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