On 06/13/2010 11:12 PM, Damien Girard wrote:
Hi Bill,
On linux, applications does not bundle the icons like Windows or MacOS.
You have to use xdg-utils tools to create desktop icons on the GNOME Desktop
environment.
http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/
Reading that made me feel both stupid and headachey!
Command-line apps do that to me.
The caveat is about 2 thirds of the way down the page:
"And now your product has a menu on any XDG compliant desktop!"
so; as you really don't know what sort of Window Manager and/or Desktop
manager your end-user favours this doesn't help much, except that, at least,
a subset of your end-users will end up with a predetermined icon. So, pop
a PNG image of the icon in your distribution archive for the "awkward"
ones . . . :)
The next bit made my toes curl a bit:
"Changes in xdg-utils 1.0.1:
* Several shell syntax issues causing failures on Ubuntu 6.10 "
despite the page supposedly having been updated this year, as Ubuntu
users are running at 10.04 I wonder how much further than 6.10 the
thing has been tested on.
This would also suggest that the thing has ONLY been tested on Ubuntu; which
while being the most popular desktop distro "out there", is not the only
one by a very
long chalk indeed: who knows it may totally scr*w up on some other distro.
Being pessimistic; but better that than having egg all over my face when
somebody
writes me a mildly abusive e-mail about my product showing up on their
personal
Linux designed with 'Linux fron scratch' without a special icon.
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