On 02/01/2011 05:04 PM, Isaac Fischer wrote:
xdg-desktop-icon can't be done in %install, without putting your
.desktop file in ~root/Desktop or whoever is building the
package, because it's done at build time. xdg-desktop-icon only works
for the current user. The regular user would have to have rights to the
RPM database to install even a subpackage with nothing but the Launcher
file and macros. So, upon reflection, that's why it can't be done at RPM
install - you'd have to have a script which examines /home/* and inserts
it into all of them, which is just flat out wrong. The xdg-desktop-icon
has to be done by the user. I imagine you could put together a
user-level service in /usr/share/gnome/autostart/ that runs a script
that invokes xdg-desktop-icon, and would re-install the icon each login,
and then the user would have to disable it if they ever wanted to be rid
of the icon. A pain to be sure.
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But that's not a concern because no one's building RPMs as root.
Right?
-J
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2011/2/1 Erik Blankinship <erikb(a)mediamods.com <mailto:erikb@mediamods.com>>
That covers your bases, gives the user an option, and doesn't
violate any standards that I can see. If a standard banning
Launcher install re-emerges, you won't have to do major surgery
to your spec, and it will degrade gracefully.
Does that satisfy any|everyone?
Isaac, thank you very much for your response!
Now I can get rpmbuild to successfully use rpmbuild with
xdg-desktop-icon in %install... and in the process puts an icon on
my desktop (/before even installing the rpm!/) I am doing something
wrong. Any suggestions?
Here is the relevant part of my spec file:
Source1: %{name}.desktop
BuildRoot:
%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
BuildRequires: gettext, python-devel, desktop-file-utils, xdg-utils
...
%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
desktop-file-install
--dir=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/applications %{SOURCE1}
xdg-desktop-icon install --novendor %{SOURCE1}
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