Hi Florian, Thanks for the tip. Let me check it out. I will get back to you.
Regards -- anees On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Florian Festi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > aneeskA wrote: > > > Hi Florian, > > > > First of all thanks for replying. I will try to explain the situation > > clearly. > > > > You would have noticed that while installing RPMs like adobe reader > > after the processing is complete he puts a shortcut on the desktop and also > > one entry in Applications->Office. Looking at some of the spec files I have > > found out that it is possible to duplicate the same by placing a /*.desktop/ > > file on to //usr/share/applications /folder. But it is not working for me. > > Also i had already figured out that putting the file on to the desktop will > > end up in root's desktop. Thats why i was looking for other alternatives. > > The only possible way i can figure out is to place the /*.desktop /file on > > to some directory which is used for such purposes. But > > //usr/share/applications/ /is failing in my case. > > > > If you can provide me with some inputs it will be great. I think I > > have explained the situation vividly. > > > > While I am not an expert in packaging desktop applications the few > packages I looked at call "update-desktop-database %{_datadir}/applications" > in their %post and %postun sections. May be this is sufficient to make your > short cut show up. > > Florian >
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