Re: install app in users homedir

[shakti <shprasad novell com>]

Hongli Lai wrote:

> Stefan Kost wrote:
>
> > hi hi,
> >
> > At first I am new to this list, but I am reading/posting to
> > gtk-app-devel,gtk-devel,.. already.
> > We develope an music composer application called buzztard [1] that 
> > usees gnome
> > feature if the are available.
> >
> > I have some problems with installing the application for development 
> > purposes
> > into my homedir. My username if 'ensonic'. I configure my app with
> > '--prefix=/home/ensonic/myapp' ($HOME would be okay as well). Now the 
> > probelm is
> > how to make all the gnome services aware of that. Is it possible at all.
> > I happilly collect all these things and it agreed write a small 
> > docbook article
> > for gnome developer site if I get enough feedback.
> >
> > 1.) installing a .desktop file: How do I notify the gnome panel menu 
> > that there
> > is a new app. When I install to /opt/gnome the menu entry is there after
> > restarting gnome.
>
>
> I had been working on this kind of installation issues for months for 
> my project. Installing .desktop files is a mess right now.
> You can install .desktop files to either /usr/share/applications, or 
> ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications. The item may or may not show up 
> immediately; I'm not sure what's the cause of this bug (it's not 
> whether FAM is running).
> However, this does not work correctly on GNOME 2.6+! There is no way 
> to install .desktop files to the home folder with GNOME 2.6+. At 
> least, not without a hack which involves editing a custom 
> ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications.info (or something) file.
> It is not possible to install to ~/.local/share/applications. GNOME 
> upstream does not support the menu spec. RedHat GNOME partially does, 
> but their patches are not merged upstream.
>
>
> > 3.) gconf-schema files. gconftool seems to insist installing to 
> > /opt/gnome/...
>
>
> For local GConf schema installatin, use this:
> export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=
> gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule "filename.schemas"
>
> Yes, settting GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE is intential. The idea is to change 
> it from NULL to an empty string ("").
>
> However, due to bugs in GConf or gconf-editor (not sure which one is 
> at fault), the new keys may or may not show up immediately in 
> gconf-editor. In the latter case, you'll have to restart GNOME before


Or you can kill the gconfd and restart it. Now the keys will be 
reflected in the gconf-editor. No need to restart GNOME.

Thanks,
Shakti

> they show up. Your app can still use the keys though; they just don't 
> show up correctly in gconf-editor.
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