From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Nov 30 09:55:18 2005
Subject: Re: Desktop integration
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian dot org>
Cc: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>,         =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Hauberg <soren@hauberg.org>, bugs@octave.org
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:54:18 -0500

On 23-Sep-2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

| * John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> [2005-09-23 15:15]:
| 
| > Here is another question about this for package.  I think when people
| > make packages, they typically run make install with DESTDIR set so all
| > the files from the install go into a fresh directory tree.  It seems
| > that running desktop-file-install is not going to do the right thing
| > with respect to DESTDIR.  Is that a problem?  Should we use a
| > different approach?  If it is trouble, then I can comment out the
| > install rule for the desktop file.
| 
| I guess this should work:
| 
|     desktop-file-install --dir=$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/applications [...]
| 
| (this is for the desktop-file-utils package version 0.10-1 in debian, if
| that matters)
| 
| I would vote for not commenting the rule above in the Makefile, since it
| respects the DESTDIR.

OK, I enabled the code to install the octave.desktop file and the
corresponding image file (sombrero.png), using the --dir option for
installing the desktop file.  We'll see if this breaks anything.

Thanks,

jwe



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