As a linux Cayenne user (and really, as a user on any platform), I don't see the point of installing Cayenne as an RPM or with any kind of installer. Different projects require different versions of Cayenne, and I wouldn't want an automatic upgrade changing the version on me.
As for a desktop app, I think all that you have to do is create a CayenneModeller.desktop file and copy it to the Desktop folder. This is under OpenSUSE Mate (previously Gnome) but I think it also works for KDE and other window managers. Here's an example of an entry I created for Eclipse: mkienenb@linux-4eqv:~/Desktop> cat eclipse.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Eclipse X-SuSE-translate=true Categories=Development;IDE; Exec=/home/mkienenb/Apps/eclipse/eclipse.sh -vm /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_34/bin/java GenericName=Eclipse IDE X-KDE-StartupNotify=true MimeType=application/x-designer; Icon=/home/mkienenb/Apps/eclipse/eclipse128.png Type=Application Comment[en_US]=see eclipse.ini for command-line args GenericName[en_US]=Eclipse IDE Here's one I just threw together for Cayenne Modeler. I don't pretend to be an expert on what all of the parameters mean, so some of them may be wrong. mkienenb@linux-4eqv:~/Desktop> cat CayenneModeler.desktop [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Cayenne 3.1 Modeler X-SuSE-translate=true Categories=Development;Programming Exec=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_34/bin/java -jar /home/mkienenb/java/cayenne-3.1B2/bin/CayenneModeler.jar GenericName=Cayenne 3.1 Modeler X-KDE-StartupNotify=true MimeType=application/x-designer; Icon=/home/mkienenb/workspaces/cayenne-checkout/STABLE-3.1/modeler/cayenne-modeler/src/main/resources/org/apache/cayenne/modeler/images/CayenneModeler.jpg Type=Application Comment[en_US]= GenericName[en_US]=Cayenne 3.1 Modeler However, when I tried to use $JAVA_HOME/bin/java, that failed, so you probably cannot have a path based on an environment variable, which means you would need to create it with a shell script rather than just drag it onto your desktop. If you copy it into /usr/share/applications, it shows up in the menus on my system, with Categories controlling which menus. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote: > So now we are talking about installer, i.e. something a level up from just a > desktop app packager. I wonder if having an .rpm and friends will do more > harm than good, with blanket system updates upgrading Cayenne to a version > not compatible with the user apps (Cayenne is not a system component after > all, it is a dev library). > > I wish there was something on Linux similar to OS X app bundle that would > allow people to drag a single folder from tar.gz to Desktop and get a > launcher with a Cayenne icon, not just a jar. I haven’t followed Linux > desktop development lately. Maybe there is such solution? > > Andrus > > > On Dec 1, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Adrian A. <a.adrian.t...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> ... most of the work happened outside Cayenne, going into japp-maven-plugin >>> [1], which has become again a modern cross-platform tool to assemble Java >>> desktop apps. >> >> Any plans to support the various Unix distributions (so not just an >> executable JAR)? : >> http://mojo.codehaus.org/unix/ >> >> The usefulness is of course limited, but the project's visibility >> would be increased since it could be submitted to those distributions >> too. >> >> Adrian.
