Re: Little redesign of package files for 1.3

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2008/5/28 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:
>>
>> I'm not sure I'm following you here.. how would you then get stuff
>> like icons in the menus, path changes to the new program etc to work?
>> Or do you mean that the package calls external, trusted apps to do
>> this?
>
> If the installer is separate then you start by running the installer, not the
> package. For example, to add ROX-Filer to the Ubuntu Application's menu,
> you:
>
> 1) run Applications -> Add Zero Install Program
> 2) drag http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Filer to the dialog box
>
> You end up with an item in your menu for launching ROX-Filer, but the package
> itself doesn't know anything about menus.

Ah, I see. Yeah, that would work in autopackage for most packages. We
could automatically create an icon for all binaries installed with
installExe. Most packages have only one binary so it would only have
one icon. It would be a bit weird for packages which ship multiple
binaries where only one should actually be run by the user. (I guess
one could argue that the other binaries should go to libexec though)

-Isak

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