On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 14:03 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:28:10 -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote: > > Have you checked that this one doesn't work on something recent? I have > > dumped .desktop files in /usr/share/applications on several FC4 > > installations and they got picked up and added to the (Gnome) menu > > (haven't checked KDE though). > > Yes of course /usr/share/applications works, the problem is that > /usr/local/share/applications does not work, because the menu definitions > don't list this as an <AppDir>. So it means any software installed to > /usr/local such as things compiled from source don't get menu entries. Boy, I should really learn to proofread better! I meant to say that I had put desktop files in /usr/local/share/applications and it _does_ work on my systems, and I have not changed anything in the menu definition files. (Only tested on FC4 though, I don't have anything older around right now.) My apologies for the confusion! Per -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
