2008/5/21 James Falkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> >> 2008/5/21 Tom Mueller (pkg-discuss) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> With GNOME and a non-root user, doesn't the file have to be installed >>> under >>> $HOME/.gnome somewhere? This directory is typically not going to be >>> within >>> the user image so a simple install of a file doesn't work. Also, if the >>> same application is installed three times in different user images by a >>> user >>> (slightly different versions), there needs to be some resolution >>> regarding >>> multiple menu entries. On Windows its a whole different story with >>> registry >>> editing, etc. >> >> Yes, I know Windows is different. Hence why I qualified GNOME :-) >> >> However, as far as GNOME is concerned, my understanding is that >> gnome-panel will use gamin or something else to monitor the >> directories where it expects there to be menu entries. >> >> So for the GNOME case, the only thing to be concerned about is the >> same application being installed three times, as far as I know. > > BTW I don't think that's true on all GNOME versions. In particular, > between Solaris 9/10/OpenSolaris/Ubuntu/...., they each have different GNOME > versions (not surprising) but each version has a wildly different > mechanism for adding menu entries, and also Solaris 9/10 require more than > just laying down files, IIRC you have to kill gnome-panel for it > to refresh. What versions of GNOME is gamin used out of the box?
That I can't answer, but the point is well taken if you're talking about delivering for older versions of GNOME. -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
