Hey guys, I'm trying to get a small game app prepared for final release, but I'm struggling with one issue: the proper installation of .desktop files and icons. I want to have this figured out at the source package level, so that it is easier to make binary packages for various distros later on. I couldn't find any guide/tutorial on this subject online, but I looked at a few other game packages, and eventually came up with this: code: -------- desktopdir = $(datadir)/applications desktop_DATA = gfifteen.desktop icondir = $(datadir)/icons icon_DATA = gfifteen.svg -------- A problem I've had with this is that in Gentoo, which installs from source, $datadir gets changes by the package manager to a special games data directory, which is one which is not checked by the desktop menu programs, so my desktop file and icons do not appear in those menus. I could probably fix this with special code at the Gentoo package level, but it seems like I should deal with the more fundamental problem that sometimes a system might not be configured to have the data directory set to be the same as the freedesktop file directory. So I am trying to figure out if I should... * replace $(datadir) above with some hard-coded location (say, /usr/share), which seems a bit presumptious, or... * is there some kind of autoconf macro which figures out where freedesktop .desktop files and icons should be installed and provides a variable? -- frigidcode.com indicium.us
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