On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:01, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
<barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:13:47 +0000 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Recently I had to do a new install and that's the time when you
>>> realize shortcomings exist :-) For instance I use Gentoo and we don't
>>> ship gnome-menus or kde-similar by default, so the result is an empty
>>> applications menu.
>>>
>>> Google reminded me of
>>> http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/E17_and_Efreet with hints on
>>> how to hack around it. Not good if we're willing to release.
>>>
>>> Given that pulling in gnome-menus will bring in lots of unneeded stuff
>>> just for a handful of .directory or .menu, why not create our own and
>>> install it with E17 or Efreet? We can get either Gnome or KDE files
>>> and derive our own, that is always installed and we default to it.
>>>
>>> Comments, suggestions?
>>
>> the problem is.. for this file to work it has to be installed out-of-prefix..
>> so we can install it but.. we'd put it in PREFIX/etc/xdg/menus
>> (ie /usr/etc/xdg/menus or /usr/local/etc/xdg/menus). you'd have to symlink it
>> from there... but e's menu config panel and wizard will pick up these
>> locations
>> just fine. if we call it enlightenment.menu or such... no problems. of course
>> user will have to select it in wizard or config gui... but its a few clicks
>> away.
>
> I don't see why, user can install --sysconfdir or even append more
> search paths to $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
There are some proper ways to handle this:
1) Install to ${PREFIX}/share/${APPLICATION}/ and let the
packager/distribution link to /etc/xdg/...
2) Install to ${PREFIX}/share/doc/${APPLICATION}/ and let the
user/packager/distribution copy it to /etc
3) Use E's wizard to put it in ~/.local/share/xdg or wherever this
stuff resides on a per-user base. This also would allow to use a
menu-editor.
3 can be used in combination with 2 or 1.
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