Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:52:32 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Chuck Robey" <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: menus Message-ID: <opsnqxhuvy9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20050316142524.X84655@april.chuckr.org> References: <20050316142524.X84655@april.chuckr.org>
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:32:47 -0500 (EST), Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote: > I need to know more about where files are in the FreeBSD gnome. I don't > want to pester you forever, but I need to know how to fix the location of > files in gnome, so I can change things. > > It won't come as a shock to anyhow to know that gnome wants to assume > it's > always installed in Linux, or that Linux has the horrible habit of > installing everything under /usr. This means that I will never find > files > installed under a FreeBSD port installed where they would be in a classic > Linux install (which most of their docs will assume they should be). > This > isn't a complaint, it's quite right, and I am happy that the FreeBSD > porters took this adult approach, if anything I am unhappy at the Linux > folks for not doing this obvious thing (installing OUTSIDE of /usr, > keeping ports OUT of /usr/bin, usr/share, etc, etc) > > OK, I have been pointed to a file that carries the gnome menu info, file > /usr/share/applications/mozilla.dektop. I don't konw which of our gnome > ports installs this file, Why don't you learn how to use 'find', 'locale', 'whereis' or other search tools? GNOME even has the search feature. They are at /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/applications/. > only that x11/gnome2 doesn't list it. I looked x11/gnome2 is not an app. It's just a slave port that call on a lot of apps to be build and install. If you want to find mozilla.desktop, check in either www/mozilla or www/mozilla-devel. You need to quit amuse anything on FreeBSD when you are clueless. > at the FreeBSD-gnome web page lookibng for any info on file mapping, > didn't find anything, so I am asking here. I want to add a bunch of > browsers to the gnome file menus; can anyone point me towards a port that > installs this file, or perhaps the gnome file mapping for the FreeBSD > port (this is much better!) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, > chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. > > New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into > looking up > fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity, > Signa Phi Nothing). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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