On 8/14/07, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 8/14/07, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I've always been noticing that some graphical apps lack .desktop
> > files, and it is really annoying, because I can't see what I just
> > installed in the menu, and often I forget about its existence, if it's
> > a non-essential app. I've never done anything about that, but I
> > decided it's time to solve the problem, or at least trying to make
> > things better.
> >
> > For this reason I just wrote a couple of lines in
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Project , which aims to be
> > a container for a list of apps that need a .desktop file but do not
> > have it, and of apps that have it, but it is broken or lacking.
> >
> > Feel free to add your own apps =)
>
> Great! Feel free to send these to both the Arch maintainer and
> upstream, so we can get it incorporated quicker (i.e. gtkpod - it's
> mine)
>
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Also, I noticed that some apps have .desktops and they are fine, but the
.install script doesn't do some needed things like update-desktop-database
etc, making the app show in menu only after a reboot or even worse, after
another app installation that runs the needed updaters.
--
Abraços,
Rodrigo
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open
windows.
~Linus Torvalds
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