March 21, 2007
2:03 p.m.
On 3/20/07, Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel(a)kievinfo.com> wrote: > Tom Spear wrote: > >> > 2) Is the menu location (~/.local/share/applications) pretty much > >> > universal? In other words IF a patch were submitted to add Start Menu > >> See: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html#paths > >> > >> > creation under windows\profiles, would it require detection of the > >> > menu location, or (in the case that it is nearly universal) could it > >> > just be statically coded? > >> You talking about two totally separate things: > >> 1. Windows' "Start Menu" location > >> 2. XOrg's location for the menu entries. > >> > >> Vitaliy. > >> > > No I'm not. Apparently wine is broken in the way that it handles > > making links anyways, because if you look in winecfg with a clean > > ~/.wine you see Desktop points to ~/Desktop which is not good. The > > reason this is not good is because when a user installs a program they > > get 2 icons, one is the lnk file that is used in windows (useless in > > wine/linux for launching programs), and the other is the .desktop > > file. > You missed that discussion. It was decided some time ago that for > compatibility reasons with 1000 different distros Wine will be using > symlinks. And it works properly. But the biggest reasoning behind it is > integration. Wine should use ~/Desktop as desktop (if it's present). > So we want users to have both a .lnk file (which doesnt work) and a .desktop file (which does) on their desktop? Ill file bugs if that is not correct, but afaics everything in the menubuilder code looks fine. Like I said if I disable the Desktop/My docs linking in the desktop integration tab of winecfg, then wine acts properly and puts lnk files where they should be (under the fake c drive's start menu/desktop) and puts desktop files where they should be (under the real xorg desktop and menu), which is what I meant when I had said "central location", I just hadnt thought to disable the link to boxes until after I said that. -- Thanks Tom Check out this new 3D Instant Messenger called IMVU. It's the best I have seen yet! http://imvu.com/catalog/web_invitation.php?userId=1547373&from=power-email