On 12 Mar 2008, at 16:30, Kyle McDonald wrote: > > That said, will applications installed by the new pkg(5) system be > able to insert themselves into the GNOME menus automatically through > some sort of pkg(5) action/SMF 'rebuild/merge' service like I've > been seeing described for other things (fonts, etc.) > on the pkg discuss list?
(pkg-discuss snipped from follow-ups, as the answer doesn't really have anything to do with packaging...) Yes, that should be possible. The GNOME panel has always been capable of monitoring the standard locations in which .desktop files are installed, and updating the menus automatically as required. We just haven't been able to take advantage of this in OpenSolaris until very recently, because we were stuck with polling for changes rather than having proper event notification. But we should now be able to use gamin to do this. (On a related note, we do plan to update the spec to include the menu locations of the most common downloadable apps, such as OpenOffice etc.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
