About .desktop file locations

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| I've been browsing through the mail archive and the freebsd-gnome site,
| but I  can't seem to find an answer to this. I want to install a
| .desktop file for integrating an application into the gnome and kde
| menus. I see that installing it in ${X11BASE}/share/gnome/applications
| makes gnome find it ok, but I was thinking that perhaps
| ${LOCALBASE}/share/applications would be more appropriate and cross-DE.
| Perusing the ports tree I see most gnome apps use the former, whereas
| most kde apps use some variant of the latter, like
| ${LOCALBASE}/share/kde/applications. So my question is, do we have a
| "standard", DE-agnostic place for these files? Also, do I have to run
| update-desktop-database after putting them in there?

Put it in ${LOCALBASE}/share/applications, and both should be able to
use it.  Yes, you should run update-desktop-database after installation.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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