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Re: [bug #16619] No .desktop file


From: Gregory John Casamento
Subject: Re: [bug #16619] No .desktop file
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 07:11:41 -0700 (PDT)

Vassilis,

Applications under GNUstep are kept in app bundles so that all resources are together.  This means that an application has the executable in the .app wrapper and the images and gui files in the Resources directory.  The icon should be located in the .app wrapper, per my comment in the bug.
 
It would probably be good for you to familiarize yourself with the OpenStep standard and Cocoa prior to making comments like the one below as not everything in the world conforms to FHS.

Please make any comments regarding this bug in the bug tracking database, not on this mailing list.

Later, GJC
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Gregory John Casamento


----- Original Message ----
From: Vassilis Pandis <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org>
To: Vassilis Pandis <pandisv@yahoo.co.uk>; Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com>; bug-gnustep@gnu.org
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:44:10 AM
Subject: [bug #16619] No .desktop file


Follow-up Comment #2, bug #16619 (project gnustep):

Hi! Thanks for the quick response. I agree that my absolute path in the
"Icon" entry isn't ideal. On the other hand, usually applications place their
icons in /usr/share/pixmaps, which is at least one location in which the gnome
menu creation code looks for the icon. Normally there is no need for absolute
icon paths because if a distro installs them in a nonstandard place, they
tweak their menu creation accordingly.

I'm not absolutely sure what I'm talking about here, but it appears that
according to the FHS you shouldn't be placing gorm-related stuff in /usr/lib
at all [1]. You might want to consider using /usr/share/ for
architecture-independant files [2], which would place the icons probably in
/usr/share/pixmaps (or /usr/share/pixmaps/gorm

I'm running Ubuntu, so the path I specified is the path that the icon can be
found under Ubuntu.

[1]
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA
[2]
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA

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