On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Bret Busby <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > >> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby <[email protected]> was >> heard to say: >> >>> The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator. >>> >> >> I installed flightgear on my computer overnight to test this myself, >> and it does appear to go into the Gnome menu, under >> "Applications -> Games". Its .desktop file should look like this: >> >> $ cat /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop >> [Desktop Entry] >> Encoding=UTF-8 >> Type=Application >> Version=1.4 >> Name=FlightGear >> Exec=fgfs >> Terminal=false >> Categories=Game;Simulation; >> Comment=A flight simulator >> Comment[pt]=Simulação de Vôo >> Icon= >> >> Daniel >> >> >> > Hello again. > > Just thought t6hat I should advise: > > Using vi, I created the above file, at the specified location, then ran > update-menus. > do you also need to run update-desktop-database?
> > Flight Gear now has an entry in the Games menu, and the menu entry runs the > application. > > Now, all I have to do, is figure out how to use it, and learn to fly (kind > of) using it, without crashing or causing other massive stuffups. > > Thanks everyone, for your help. > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > .................................................... -- My platform is debian sid AMD64 gnome.
