From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 9 13:49:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3A282C for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:49:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duchateau.olivier@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADF08FC0A for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id wc20so5061676obb.13 for ; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:49:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=HXsMj9cX7QLAngV+ce9evSy1FCdKmOg0Z5i8OQMZTTU=; b=GOmXVBjmmbcKL2skziSxCwe9w7x9GAo+1///yPYmBy6GfRE6eJRKxLYYXUGqa8Jloe c4MyQOnzhpmlM7r3RqGpLK4OSjrgpN0n5tddQH7xCtThVuPcXAFHGQAdn/3Ar4nISFzE MhbiEwAuE+sTp9APAth2elXNblBSnKoVdSTeN7/sufOaCOJkvdKvzU1XRvRGJUMWxEZa DVmtbGwjRaI9zUjd98rpsOW50vFW9TGo185YhX5U9WTX0wcHbDp899o6LMgfVv49VHBY zKsQDnX/YGu8ZMls2sLGtjczCuYO1fBvoJprbZM1uTYrEsIQNS8DwvPd2j7gI9rvDuip dubA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.25.198 with SMTP id e6mr8046567oeg.83.1352468962540; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:49:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.22.196 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 05:49:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1352456262220-5759494.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1352456262220-5759494.post@n5.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:49:22 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: fixing missing launch icons From: Olivier Duchateau To: Beeblebrox Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:49:23 -0000 2012/11/9 Beeblebrox : > Some ports fail to create the launch icon (menu item) in the desktop menu. To > correct this, one is to add in /usr/local/share/application a file by > .desktop like so: > > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Name= > GenericName= > Comment= > TryExec= > Exec= > Icon= > Type=Application > Categories=;;; > > My question is: The menu entries have categories - for example in gnome > there are Graphics, Office, Internet, etc. How can one specify the category > placement (under which category) this icon should go? > There's specification [1] for create (and understand) desktop menu. About icons, usually, we can find in /usr/local/share/icons and /usr/local/share/pixmaps directories. Note: some ports don't provide .desktop file, it's not necessarily "bug". [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ > Thanks and Regards > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/fixing-missing-launch-icons-tp5759494.html > Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- olivier