On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 9:34 AM, RGB ES <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 2012/8/26 Kay Schenk <[email protected]>: > >> > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:13 AM, RGB ES <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> This time I installed not the "suse" desktop integration RPM but the > >> >> "freedesktop" one, and it worked without problems. If someone confirm > >> >> that this is the same for fedora and mandriva then I think we can > >> >> safely drop those distro specific RPMs and offer only one, like we > >> >> offer only one .deb on the debian packages. > >> >> > >> >> What do you think? > >> >> > >> >> Regards > >> >> Ricardo > >> >> > >> > > > OK, I finally did this. I uninstalled the opensuse menu setup and just > installed the freedestop.org rpm. Everything is working. But I too am on > opensuse. It would be great to have folks from other distros test this out. > > The only odd thing I'm experiencing, which I remember from before, is that > some of the icons in my default kickoff app launcher (kde 4.7) are NOT > there for some of the AOO modules, and yet some are. So, I will attempt to > track this down. In the normal KDE menu they are fine. > > It would certainly be nice to maintain a single desktop interface for > Linux. > > > > >> > This is interesting. I should try this one as well and see what > happens. > >> > > >> > Can you provide further details? > >> > > >> > What distro are you using? What window manager are you using, etc. > >> > > >> > >> openSUSE 11.4, 64 bits, with KDE SC 4.8.4. On a couple of weeks maybe > >> I'll try with openSUSE 12.2. > >> > >> The freedesktop package provided the menu entries, the mime type > >> icons... and I can use krunner to launch any AOO app. > >> > >> Regards > >> Ricardo > >> > > > > OK, thanks. I should install this someplace and see that the file > > structure is. > I wonder what is the diff from one file to the next, I think freedesktop was integrated into more current versions of the distros to provide a common interface for launcher layout. But the issue could be if it's tried on older distros before the freedesktop standard was integrated on the menu structure. (This is only a theory). > > > > > > -- > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > MzK > > > > "As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: > > take it or leave it. " > > -- Buddy Hackett > > > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly > being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and > let the beautiful stuff out." > -- Ray Bradbury, "Zen in the Art of Writing" > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
