Add desktopfiles

[david]

add desktop files for pkg programms, so that the user can find it

[pmenzel]

Nice. Less confusion for the MarIuX desktop users.

[pmenzel]

Isn’t it installed/available on all our systems? From Desktop Entry Specification:

Path to an executable file on disk used to determine if the program is actually installed. If the path is not an absolute path, the file is looked up in the $PATH environment variable. If the file is not present or if it is not executable, the entry may be ignored (not be used in menus, for example).

[pmenzel]

It’d be great if you added a comment, why the package path isn’t there by default, and why it works for Inkscape, and not here.

[david]

rstudio is looking for R and can't find it in the PATH, because the GUI env is different from the terminal env.
'/etc/environment' != '/etc/profile'
/etc/environment set the PATH for the GUI

[david]

I have add some other tools, which could be interesting for the user.

Maybe we can add '/usr/local/package' to XDG_DATA_DIRS, so that we can easily distinguish whether the tool comes from the package or the system.

[donald]

There already is a /usr/local/package/applications directory with a single file inkscape2.desktiop in it. I couldn't find the source for that, maybe an abandoned experiment? Anyway, I think its a good idea to put the desktop files in a separate directory and I'd suggest not /usr/local/package itself but a subdirectory (e.g. /usr/local/package/applications).

[david]

There already is a /usr/local/package/applications directory with a single file inkscape2.desktiop in it.

I think it is some old stuff from time, when inkscape was moved to package.

[...] I'd suggest not /usr/local/package itself but a subdirectory (e.g. /usr/local/package/applications).

XDG_DATA_DIRS needs subdirs with the files in it (tested on sigquit and sigill). Maybe we use /usr/local/package/desktopfiles and in it the applications folder with the desktopfiles.

[donald]

Sorry, wasn't aware of that. I'm happy with everything:

• /usr/local/package/ in XDG DATA_DIRS and /usr/local/package/applications for the files ( your original idea, my criticism was erroneous)
• /usr/local/package/share in XDG DATA_DIRS and /usr/local/package/share/applications for the files ( because /usr/local/package has symmetry with /usr , e.g. /usr/local/package/bin to /usr/bin.
• /usr/local/package/desktopfiles in XDG DATA_DIRS and /usr/local/package/deskstopfiles/applications (although I think the above option is better)