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

[Jon Ciesla]

On 02/01/2011 05:04 PM, Isaac Fischer wrote:
> xdg-desktop-icon can't be done in %install, without putting your
> .desktop file in ~root/Desktop or whoever is building the
> package, because it's done at build time. xdg-desktop-icon only works
> for the current user. The regular user would have to have rights to the
> RPM database to install even a subpackage with nothing but the Launcher
> file and macros. So, upon reflection, that's why it can't be done at RPM
> install - you'd have to have a script which examines /home/* and inserts
> it into all of them, which is just flat out wrong. The xdg-desktop-icon
> has to be done by the user. I imagine you could put together a
> user-level service in /usr/share/gnome/autostart/ that runs a script
> that invokes xdg-desktop-icon, and would re-install the icon each login,
> and then the user would have to disable it if they ever wanted to be rid
> of the icon. A pain to be sure.
> *

But that's not a concern because no one's building RPMs as root.

Right?

-J

> *
> *Isaac Fischer*
>
> +1 (210) 775-2890
> xwaver at gmail.com <mailto:xwaver at gmail.com>
>
> Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/xwaver> LinkedIn
> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ijfischer> Twitter
> <http://twitter.com/xwaver> Plaxo <http://xwaver.myplaxo.com/>
> IM: Google Talk/ xwaver at gmail.com <mailto:xwaver at gmail.com> AIM/
> xwaver118 Skype/ xwaver118
>
> 2011/2/1 Erik Blankinship <erikb at mediamods.com <mailto:erikb at mediamods.com>>
>
>         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?
>
>
>     Isaac, thank you very much for your response!
>
>     Now I can get rpmbuild to successfully use rpmbuild with
>     xdg-desktop-icon in %install... and in the process puts an icon on
>     my desktop (/before even installing the rpm!/)  I am doing something
>     wrong.  Any suggestions?
>
>     Here is the relevant part of my spec file:
>
>         Source1: %{name}.desktop
>         BuildRoot:
>         %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
>         BuildRequires:  gettext, python-devel, desktop-file-utils, xdg-utils
>
>         ...
>
>         %install
>         rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>         %{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
>         desktop-file-install
>         --dir=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/applications %{SOURCE1}
>         xdg-desktop-icon install --novendor %{SOURCE1}
>
>
>
>
>     --
>     packaging mailing list
>     packaging at lists.fedoraproject.org
>     <mailto:packaging at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>     https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
>
>
>
>
> --
> packaging mailing list
> packaging at lists.fedoraproject.org
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging