On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:44:02AM -0500, Michael Scherer wrote: > 1 ) to launch it in the menu, i use the $BROWSER var, but, can I be sure that > this is set ? I didn't found it in /etc, but i havn't look everywhere...
Yes it should be set. It gets set upon an X login via the XSession files. And if a user is using the Mandrake menu system then they are in X. :) > 2 ) since this is only in french, how should i deal with this ? > Should i translate the menu files, or do it elsewhere ? Not sure on this one. I would assume that it's safe for the menu entries to be in French if the package only contains French documentation. > Is there a convention for the name ? Not really. > Is there any change to get it in contrib ? Can't say for sure without looking at your spec. Generally just upload it into incoming on ftp.linux-mandrake.com and send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and this list. Lenny will make any changes that are necessary to accept it. > 3 ) they also offers documentation in pdf. > is there something special to use it ? > For the menu, I do not have a var to check for a prefered reader. > I cannot say that kghostview is a dependancy, since people can wish to use > ghostview, xpdf and so on. > Is there a way to say it needs a "pdf reader ?" I would provide the files but not link them up from the menu... > last thing, the mandrake rpm howto say I must use a xpm for icon, and rpmlint > complains if it is not a png. > so, there is a bug somewhere,no ? Howto is out of date. PNG is the proper format. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols
