Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 13 years ago
#796 new defect
Standard way to install GS menu icon on Linux systems
| Reported by: | ak19 | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | moderate | Milestone: | Possible 2.88 Release |
| Component: | Installation | Severity: | major |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
xdg-utils appears to work on various window/desktop managers (gnome, kde, lxde?) of various linux distributions (ubuntu,centos,fedora?).
xdg-utils includes:
(1) xdg-open which will use the default app to launch a file of a particular file extension. This means it is useful as the default Linxu command for GLI's file assocations. Currently, the CentOS here doesn't recognise the xdg-open command, because it's not installed.
(2) xdg-utils will allow Greenstone to install menu items/icons on desktops on various Linux desktop managers.
http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/
Xdg-utils consists of the following installation related tools:
*xdg-desktop-menu, install desktop menu items
- xdg-desktop-icon, install icons to the desktop
The idea is to include xdg-utils with Greenstone and run its operation to create menu/desktop icons as an ant target during installation of GS core.
