add another .desktop file directory
Leon
sdl.web at gmail.com
Sun Mar 19 12:10:17 UTC 2006
Hi all,
I have applications installed in /opt branch. /opt may be exported to
other machine under different branch such as /usr2, so I think it's
better to keep the .desktop files in the same branch. By default,
gnome search desktop files in:
,------------[ desktop file search path ]
| ~/.local/share/applications
| /usr/share/applications
| /usr/local/share/applications
`-----------------------------------------------
I would like to add /opt/share/applications to the search path. So I
add a file to /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/ with the following
lines:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">
<Menu>
<Name>Applications</Name>
<AppDir>/opt/share/applications</AppDir>
</Menu>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Now the desktop files put in /opt/share/applications will appear in
gnome menus. However, when I do 'update-desktop-database -v' there is
no /opt/share/applications in the search path and no mimeinfo.cache in
this directory either. Any fix?
Thank you for your help.
--
Leon
os: Fedora core 5 (development)
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