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Linux desktop entry

Jan 14, 2007 moloh link
Hello!
I have request for small thing. Could You provide official desktop entry (.desktop file for menu) for vendetta-online?
The most important part of this, in my opinion, would be official icon for vendetta-online. Other things would be easy to create.
Jan 14, 2007 incarnate link
Is that a standard? Ie, across KDE, Gnome, and everything else? I'm a little out of date on my linux stuff. If it is, we can look into that. Although I thought the icon did show up for some WMs.
Jan 14, 2007 Antz link
Jan 15, 2007 Spider link
@Incarnate:

Yes. Most implementations now follow it decently as well.
Jan 20, 2007 moloh link
Not only .desktop files are now standard, they also can be used to automatically generate menus according to information provided in each specific .desktop file.
That file is easy to do, You can even get any example .desktop file from most of the packages (kde, gnome, xfce ones) to check them.
From my perspective the biggest problem is official icon.
Jan 21, 2007 Zed1985 link
what's wrong with VO's icon?
Jan 21, 2007 mr_spuck link
Shipping a .desktop file with ven would be kinda tricky. I once tried to make one that would work in all cases, but it never really worked right because ~/bin isn't always in the path and you can't use ~ as a shortcut for the homedir. So it'd have to be generated at installation time.
Jan 21, 2007 Syylk link
Already tried to replace ~ with ${HOME}?
Jan 25, 2007 moloh link
Where it is?
At least, it is not present in linux installer.
Jan 26, 2007 moloh link
ok, i am blind...