On 3/04/2009, at 10:45 AM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > Bart: > >> The postinstall script in the svr4 package called >> /usr/bin/xdg-desktop-menu, which installed the menu file there. >> I copied that behavior in the package; as that is apparently wrong >> I'll change that to /usr/share/applications. > > It seems a bug if the xdg-desktop-menu is installing the files > to the wrong location. Or, if this is directory is a desktop standard > that xdg-desktop-menu encourages, then we should probably support it. > > Either way, shouldn't we file a bug about this?
Sounds like a bug in xdg-desktop-menu. It should be picking up XDG_DATA_DIR/applications and installing the .desktop files into that. What I think it may be doing from a quick look through the script is doing some sort of compatibility mode for older versions of GNOME and KDE. Perhaps the XDG* env var isn't defined in the session, causing it to go to the compat dir? Glynn
