Le 19/02/2015 12:17, Fernando de Oliveira a écrit : > On 19-02-2015 07:58, Pierre Labastie wrote: > >> I do not know what update-desktop-database is supposed to do, so I trust you, >> Fernando. OTOH, I have a DE (KDE), I haven't run that command, and >> libreoffice >> appears in the application menu, so what should I expect more? >> (I want to understand if I am to explain something in the book). > > From the man page: > > "DESCRIPTION > The update-desktop-database program is a tool to build a cache database > of the MIME types handled by desktop files. > > The cache database contains the list of MIME types that can be handled > by desktop files, as well as, for each MIME type, a list of desktop > files that can handle this MIME type. This cache database ease the work > of applications that need to find an application that can open a docu‐ > ment of a specific MIME type: those applications will not have to parse > all the desktop files existing on the system, and can instead parse > this cache database."
Thanks for that. I understand now. I believed it was related to some menu thing. DFU is almost never referenced in the book, so I've never built it. I'll modify the LO page. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
