[mojosetup] Plans for adding system menu entries

[Timothee Besset]

You have a typo btw:

io.write("Categories=Applicatoin;Game;StrategyGame;\n")

TTimo

Nemo Der wrote:
> I wrote a quick and dirty postinstall function to create a freedesktop
> compliant menu item for my installer:
>
> local function post()
>     os.execute("mkdir -p " .. MojoSetup.info.homedir ..
> "/.local/share/applications/")
>     io.output(MojoSetup.info.homedir ..
> "/.local/share/applications/spring.desktop")
>     io.write("[Desktop Entry]\n")
>     io.write("Name=Spring\n")
>     io.write("Comment=An open source RTS game like TA\n")
>     io.write("Exec=" .. MojoSetup.destination .. "/springstart.sh\n")
>     io.write("Icon=" .. MojoSetup.destination .. "/spring.png\n")
>     io.write("Terminal=false\n")
>     io.write("Type=Application\n")
>     io.write("Categories=Applicatoin;Game;StrategyGame;\n")
> end
>
> Setup.Package
> {
>
>     id = "Spring",
>     description = "Spring RTS",
>     version = "0.75b2",
>     splash = "springlogo.bmp",
>     superuser = false,
>     recommended_destinations =
>     {
>         MojoSetup.info.homedir,
>         "/opt/games",
>         "/usr/local/games"
>     },
>     postinstall=post,
>
> ..etc..
>
> Doing it this way requires changing the make.sh to compile with the
> Lua IO and OS functions though.
>
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 2:05 AM, Ole Jacob <ojt at gexcon.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Are there any plans for adding application menu entries in som automatic
>> fasion? I seem to remember that this was one of the shortcomings in Loki
>> Setup.
>>
>> What about uninstall and upgrade features?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ole Jacob
>>
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