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From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr>
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Subject: Re: About .desktop file locations
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> | Hi all,
> |
> | I've been browsing through the mail archive and the freebsd-gnome site,
> | but I  can't seem to find an answer to this. I want to install a
> | .desktop file for integrating an application into the gnome and kde
> | menus. I see that installing it in ${X11BASE}/share/gnome/applications
> | makes gnome find it ok, but I was thinking that perhaps
> | ${LOCALBASE}/share/applications would be more appropriate and cross-DE.
> | Perusing the ports tree I see most gnome apps use the former, whereas
> | most kde apps use some variant of the latter, like
> | ${LOCALBASE}/share/kde/applications. So my question is, do we have a
> | "standard", DE-agnostic place for these files? Also, do I have to run
> | update-desktop-database after putting them in there?
> 
> Put it in ${LOCALBASE}/share/applications, and both should be able to
> use it.  Yes, you should run update-desktop-database after installation.

Darn, I was sure I had tried it last night and failed, but it appears to 
work now.

Thanks,

Panagiotis