Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:50:18 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: menus Message-ID: <20050316164729.S91642@april.chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <42388D5C.5080201@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050316142524.X84655@april.chuckr.org> <42388D5C.5080201@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chuck Robey 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) > > Not true. The FreeBSD ports have been modified to respected FreeBSD's > LOCALBASE and X11BASE. Not true? Not true that FreeBSD doesn't install into /usr/bin? I thought the meaning I had above was pretty clear, I wasn't trashing the port, Joe. I was saying, I don't like the Linux practice of installing software into /usr/bin, or anything like that, mixing with the system software. You disagree with that? I'm amazed. > > | > | 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, only that x11/gnome2 doesn't list it. I looked > | 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!) > > This file isn't installed by any FreeBSD port. Mozilla will install a > /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/applications/mozilla.desktop if you configure it > with the right option. Of course, per my previous emails, all of the > browsers in FreeBSD can automatically install menu entries under > Applications->Internet. > > Joe > > | > | > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | 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). > | > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | _______________________________________________ > | freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > | To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > | > > > - -- > Joe Marcus Clarke > FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCOI1cb2iPiv4Uz4cRApoNAKCDF/VkUrSflVPRHEv3zAHSPQsy8QCgrMLp > vhCPlRGJThLPvgMpSPQ5etM= > =PAhI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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