On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 8 Oct 2003, Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Martin Pool wrote:
> >
> > > * The graphical monitor can now be configured with either
> > > libraries are not used. In both cases the resulting program is
> > > called distccmon-gnome and the functional differences are fairly
> > > small.
> >
> > The shipped desktop file gives the following problem for me:
> >
> > # desktop-file-install --vendor gnome --add-category X-Red-Hat-Base --dir
> > /var/tmp/root-distcc-2.11.1/usr/share/applications gnome/distccmon-gnome.desktop
> > Error on file "gnome/distccmon-gnome.desktop": Error in section Desktop
> > Entry at line 6: Invalid characters in key name
> >
> > It seems that (at least my) desktop-file-install doesn't like key names
> > with a space in them (Generic Name).
>
> That was taken from the freedesktop.org specification, which also says
> to use 0, not 'false'. I suppose your system is using an older
> version?
I'm using desktop-file-utils 0.3, which is the latest.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gnome]# desktop-file-validate distccmon-gnome.desktop
Error parsing distccmon-gnome.desktop: Error in section Desktop Entry at line
6: Invalid characters in key name
The help however gives a clue:
--copy-name-to-generic-name Copy the contents of the "Name" field to
the "GenericName" field.
--copy-generic-name-to-name Copy the contents of the "GenericName"
field to the "Name" field.
I guess it should be GenericName instead of Generic Name.
> > Also, is there a reason why the .desktop file isn't installed in
> > $(datadir)/applications/ (and the icon in $(datadir)/pixmaps/) ?
> > My package is now doing that manually.
>
> I wasn't sure where that was specified. Do you have a reference for
> that?
I've looked for a reference, and found this:
http://pdx.freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html
http://pdx.freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec/menu-spec-0.7.html
All my packages are doing it, that was my only reference until now.
The Spec also says clearly:
Possible value types
The value types recognized are string, localestring, regexp, boolean
(encoded as the string true/false), and numeric.
and:
Values of type boolean must either be the string 'true' or
'false'.
> > I would also change the .desktop file to the following:
> >
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Name=Distcc Monitor
> > Comment=Graphical view of distributed compile tasks
> > Exec=distccmon-gnome
> > Icon=distccmon-gnome-icon.png
> > Terminal=false
> > Type=Application
> > Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
> > StartupNotify=true
> >
> > Unless some of the other key names offers functionality that I'm not aware
> > of. I'd like the menu-entries uppercase, as this is common practice for
> > Gnome.
>
> I'd rather not.
Ok, it's just that I think that's common practice in Gnome to have the
menu entries to start uppercase. So for my package I'll be doing it
anyway.
Kind regards,
-- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ --
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