[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#514018: e17: missing Illume launcher icons

[Albin Tonnerre]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 07:37:17PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote :
> Hi Albin!
> 
> Please do not Cc: me, I read the list, TIA.
> 
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:57:49 +0100, Albin Tonnerre wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:50:16PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote :
> >  
> >> However, the Illume launcher has nothing to do with XDG menus, but it
> >> reads .desktop files from /usr/share/applications/:
> >> 
> >>   http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2009-January/000919.html
> >> 
> >
> > That's not quite true. No item will ever show on the "desktop"
> > (assuming this is the launcher you're talking about) if you don't have
> > a menu file that efreet can find.
> 
> Are you sure?  On the FreeSmartphone.Org Milestone5 image [1], the
> following is enough to have a nice 'gThumb' icon on the "desktop":
> 
> =====
> root at om-gta02:~# /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm stop
> Stopping XServer
> root at om-gta02:~# grep gthumb /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

The menu file can do matches by categories, not specifically by full name. I
suggest you rather grep the Categories listed in gthumb.desktop

Cheers,
Albin

> root at om-gta02:~# mv gthumb.desktop /usr/share/applications/
> root at om-gta02:~# /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm start
> Starting Xserver
> root at om-gta02:~#
> =====
> 
> Some notes:
> 
> - gthumb.desktop comes from my Debian sid
> 
> - clicking on the icon opens the "Application run error" window since
>   there is no gthumb executable
> 
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenmokoFramework/Status_Update_6



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Albin Tonnerre
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