Re: update-menus silently failing with Gnome?

2013-09-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/09/13 01:34, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:01:50PM +0200, Daniel Pocock a écrit : For those feeling lazy, I suppose we can just grab the .desktop file generated under /var by update-menus and copy it into our packages? Or is there a more elegant way to manage the

update-menus silently failing with Gnome?

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Pocock
I've been trying to create menu items for postbooks and postbooks-updater, for example: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/postbooks-updater.git;a=blob;f=debian/menu;h=456d003f95312b27e3a1301057dd5b8dc3efca36;hb=86c8d75cc7297ba47b6398930c256d202011ab93 is a debian/menu file

Re: update-menus silently failing with Gnome?

2013-09-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 19:55 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: I can see that update-menus is run during the dpkg install and I tried running it again manually. I can even find the .desktop file for Gnome after update-menus has run, it looks OK However, the item just doesn't appear in the menu,

Re: update-menus silently failing with Gnome?

2013-09-29 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 29/09/13 20:09, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 19:55 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: I can see that update-menus is run during the dpkg install and I tried running it again manually. I can even find the .desktop file for Gnome after update-menus has run, it looks OK However,

Re: update-menus silently failing with Gnome?

2013-09-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On 29/09/13 21:01, Daniel Pocock wrote: - Debian appears to have a perfectly good menu tool and it is not clear why it has to be ditched. Upstreams often ship desktop files; menu files are Debian-specific; and if a GUI environment has Debian-specific infrastructure to display both, it will

Re: update-menus silently failing with Gnome?

2013-09-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:01:50PM +0200, Daniel Pocock a écrit : For those feeling lazy, I suppose we can just grab the .desktop file generated under /var by update-menus and copy it into our packages? Or is there a more elegant way to manage the duplication with debhelper support perhaps?