From bug-request at octave dot org Fri Sep 23 13:34:50 2005
Subject: Re: Desktop integration
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Hauberg?= <soren at hauberg dot org>
Cc: bugs at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:34:34 -0400

On 23-Sep-2005, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| [snip]
| > Doing it this way, building Octave will generate a desktop file with
| > the proper directory names.  But I'm still not convinced that we should be
| > installing this unconditionally.
| You're properly right. We could check (during configure, I guess) if the 
| program 'desktop-file-install' exist (if it exist it means that the 
| system supports freedesktop menu-entries). If it does then the 
| octave.desktop file can be installed using the command:
| 
| desktop-file-install --vendor www.octave.org octave.desktop
| 
| If 'desktop-file-install' doesn't exist we properly shouldn't install 
| the menu-entry.

OK, I added some rules for this.

| > Also, does someone have a good version of the sombrero icon in the
| > proper size?  Or, a better icon?
| You can get a 90x40 icon (with transparent background) at
| http://hauberg.org/octave_bw_sombrero.png
| 
| and a 45x20 icon at
| http://hauberg.org/octave_bw_sombrero_45x20.png
| 
| I'm not an artist so I don't have a new icon :-(

I copied the larger icon file.  It might be better to have something
more colorful, as this one is hard to see against my grey Gnome panel.

Thanks,

jwe



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