Re: Desktop file generated with wrong path ?

[Gregory Casamento]

I will have another look at this tonight to see if I cant fix some of
these things.  I'd like to make integration with GNOME as smooth and
seamless as possible.

GC

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Philippe Roussel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 16:13 -0500, Gregory Casamento a écrit :
>> This is my fault and it's a bug I need to address.
>>
>>
>> The issue was that the .desktop file was being generated prior to my
>> change completely wrong and was absolutely useless in the first place
>> as it was being generated assuming that the .desktop file would live
>> in the .app directory and would use relative paths.  Unfortunately,
>> this is not how GNOME works.   It appears, oddly, that GNOME requires
>> absolute paths to everything, the icon, the executable, etc...
>
> Well, almost none of the desktop files on my ubuntu machine have full
> paths for the executable. It's just the name of the executable and this
> executable has to be in the PATH to be found.
>
> The icon part very often contains only a single name, without an
> extension, like for example 'inkspace'. I guess when Nautilus reads the
> desktop file it searches /usr/share/icons/$MyTheme$/... for an icon of
> the right size named inkspace.svg.
>
>> I need to derive the path in another way which points to the correct
>> location and submit that fix.   It may indeed be possible that it will
>> never be entirely possible to generate this file automatically and
>> have it actually work (and NO... it wasn't working as it was
>> before). ;)
>
> Well, if we can install the application and its desktop file
> in /opt/GNUstep-trunk/Local/Applications/, it should be too hard to know
> that the icon in the application's Resources directory will be located
> in /opt/GNUstep-trunk/Local/Applications/MyApp.app/Resources/ and write
> that in the desktop file !
>
> Of course if someone installs MyApp.app in a strange location without
> using 'make install' (or a packaged version) it will break but why would
> someone do that ?
>
> Anyway, maybe I'm missing something obvious...
>
> Philippe
>
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