It's doing exactly the same on Ubuntu 8.10. As I understand it, if this directory exists, and is writeable, it's used, if it doesn't then things are installed in /etc/xdg/applications
But, it would seem to be a bug in the script that it uses the wrong dirname for GNOME. According to the Desktop Menu Specification[1] it should be (as we know): $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications where XDG_DATA_DIRS is /usr/share:/etc/xdg usually. Darren. On 02/04/2009 22:45, 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? > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
