[Fedora-packaging] installing an icon to the desktop?

[Isaac Fischer]

Oh, and it should go without saying that you should have the equivalent
uninstall in %postun.

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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Isaac Fischer <xwaver at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, long story short:
> Is there one or more documented Fedora standard that says you can't do it?
> I think there used to be, but not anymore.
> Is there an easy way to do it? Yes. There's even an xdg utility to do so
> properly in a freedesktop compliant way. See
> http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-desktop-icon.html
> Should you do it? Not necessarily. Being freedesktop compliant is nice, but
> you should always have an application menu icon also. Not all window
> managers view ~/Desktop icons. Gnome and KDE happen to do so. See
> http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-desktop-menu.html
>  <http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-desktop-menu.html>
> Now as a personal preference, I try to have as few Launchers on the desktop
> as possible. So, I'd think the REALLY smart option, in the interest of
> choice is to have a subpackage that runs xdg-desktop-icon in %post.
>
> That covers your bases, gives the user an option, and doesn't violate any
> standards that I can see. If a standard banning Launcher install re-emerges,
> you won't have to do major surgery to your spec, and it will degrade
> gracefully.
>
> Does that satisfy any|everyone?
>
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> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
>
>> Erik Blankinship wrote:
>> >
>> > > > So, with this in mind, I am wondering if there is a way for an rpm
>> to
>> > > > create an icon on the gnome desktop.  If it is possible, could
>> someone
>> > > > point me towards an example or some documentation?
>> > > >
>> > > > Also, can someone point me to the fedora policy against desktop
>> icons?
>> > > >  It would be helpful to see the policy so as to avoid other
>> pitfalls.
>> > > >  Thanks much!
>> >
>> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines
>> >
>> > Ok, looking specifically at:
>> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Desktop_files
>> >
>> > I can't find anything here about putting an icon on the user's
>> > desktop.  When I create near identical .desktop file to the one listed
>> > on that page, it just creates a gnome menu item.
>> >
>> > I also don't see anything on this page advising me against putting an
>> > icon on the dektop.
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>> It's not so much the Packaging Guidelines directly, but the fact that we
>> make every effort to adhere to FHS:
>>
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#HOMEUSERHOMEDIRECTORIES
>>
>> You just can't rely on /home being present or having particular
>> contents, for one thing.
>>
>> -J
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