Re: mime types

Den 09-01-2012 07:24, Arun Persaud wrote:
> Hi
>
>> How do we add entries to the menu, btw? Will every *.desktop file we
>> place in a
>> /usr/share/games/xxx/application folder automatically appear in the
>> games menu?

It is /usr/share/applications/, but I think so unless the desktop file 
contains "NoDisplay=true"

> I'm not sure how this works exactly. But I think when creating the rpm
> you call a macro that installs the desktop file in the right locations
> and takes care of putting it in the games menu, so it's not part of the
> configure/make/make install cycle... not sure how to install multiple
> desktops file correctly though. At the moment we are calling the xdg-*
> directly via make. Probably also not the right thing to do, at least we
> should check for the xdg-* executable before running it... I guess on OS
> X for example this might break the install at the moment... If I have
> some more time this week I'll look into it a bit more.

The xdg-* programs are shell scripts, and it would be possible to 
include them in the xboard package.

However when packing for Linux distributions, I don't that will be 
necessary.

> Also, there is no start menu in gnome3 anymore, is there still one in
> the current KDE version? Perhaps we don't need to bother solving this
> problem?

Well, if the user selected a desktop without a menu, it isn't out problem.

>> Rather than proliferating the number of XBoard menu items by adding all
>> kind
>> of ICS entries, would it be an idea to make a mime type for ICS login files
>> (now by default .icslogonrc in XBoard, I think), and associate it with
>> XBoard
>> in -ics mode?
>
> hmm, but .icslogonrc is a hidden file, so you can't just doubleclick on
> it...

To run in ics-mode you need to start xboard from a console, so there is 
no point in menu entries or icons for this, is there?