On 02/01/2011 03:14 PM, Bruce-Robert Pocock wrote: > 2011/2/1 Isaac Fischer <xwaver@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> xdg-desktop-icon can't be done in %install, without putting your .desktop file in ~root/Desktop or whoever is building the package, because it's done at build time. xdg-desktop-icon only works for the current user. The regular user would have to have rights to the RPM database to install even a subpackage with nothing but the Launcher file and macros. So, upon reflection, that's why it can't be done at RPM install - you'd have to have a script which examines /home/* and inserts it into all of them, which is just flat out wrong. > > > At least for the case of all locally-known users, you could envision > reading the user database with getpwent(3), finding each home folder, > plopping the .desktop file onto the ~/Desktop/ directory, and adding > one to /etc/skel/Desktop/ for future users created locally. But that > doesn't handle things like school or corporate LANs where /home/ (or > the directory structure analogous to /home/…) may not be writeable by > root. > > Still not a great idea, but it would work in the most general case. It seems that in order to really make such a mechanism work, you'd need a system directory (/usr/share/Desktop? or something similar) that contains additional icons that should be displayed on a user's desktop. Then when the user's session starts up, the session manager displays all icons in ~/Desktop as well as the contents of /usr/share/Desktop. This probably requires making changes to the session manager, however. Having said this, I still think the idea of packages polluting the users' desktops is gross. --Wart -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
