[mojosetup] Desktop menu items!

[Ole Jacob Taraldset]

Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
>> Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
>>>> 1) make the installer fail silently, and not remove the entire
>>>> installation
>>>> or 2) create the necessary .local files structure
>>> It definitely created the .local folder here.
>>>
>>> Can you see if CentOS ships with an "xdg-desktop-menu" in the $PATH,
>>> and if it's broken in such a way? MojoSetup favors the preinstalled
>>> script, as recommended by freedesktop.org.
>>>
>> Yes, that was the problem!
>>
>> The CentOS I'm testing on, is a vmware downloaded image.
>>
>> Do you know whether it is common for installers in various systems to
>> not install the xdg-utils package?
>> What would be a good way to check for the availability of
>> xdg-desktop-menu before trying to install menu entries?
>
> You shouldn't, in theory, have to...we favor the script in the $PATH,
> but ship our own as a fallback if the script isn't on the system.
>
> (Make sure meta/xdg-utils/xdg-desktop-menu is included with your
> installer's data.)
>
> The problem sounds like the script that's included on the system is
> buggy, though. Can you run xdg-desktop-menu --version on that machine
> and tell me what it reports? We might be able to check the version and
> use our script instead.
>
Excellent! That worked. When updating the source I missed the new stuff
in the make.sh file.

-Ole Jacob
> --ryan.
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