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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:12:37 +0200
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Integrating the docs with KDE and GNOME
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Nik Clayton said on Aug 29, 2001 at 12:30:22:
> The attached diff generates a .desktop file as part of the html-split
> format build.  If you then install this using "make install" (and
> eventually, as part of the package install) then this *.desktop files
> are installed in the right place for them to appear in the KDE
> Helpcenter.
> 
> A screenshot of this, with all the docs installed, can be seen at 
> 
>     http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/snapshot4.png
> 
> In theory, the format of the *.desktop files is identical between KDE
> and GNOME, so, modulo a couple of path changes, this should work for
> GNOME as well.  I don't run GNOME locally, so patches would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Comments?

Very nice, long overdue idea.  
I'll see what I can do with GNOME -- I don't normally run it but I've
used it before, and I'm installing it again now.

- Rahul.


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