Re: [Nautilus-list] Creating Launchers with Nautilus. Potensial patch.

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Gaute,

You should talk to George (aka "_vicious_ the vfolder lord") about this.

-Seth

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 07:10, Gaute Lindkvist wrote:
> > > Basically, you have to write the file somewhere else, and make sure that
> > > the vfolder specifications pick up the directory you write to.
> >
> > Surely it's easy enough to save any modifications to somewhere in a user's
> > .gnome directory, and read that dir along with the others? (Should users
> > ever be able to modify 'system' .desktop files? I wouldn't think so, but
> > there could be a good reason for them to somewhere.)
> >
> 
> Ok. I've figured out how to do it. There is a useritem-directory specified
> in .gnome2vfolders/applications.vfolder-info.
> Anything I put in this folder, will be merged into the dirs, based on
> "Categories" specified in the desktop-file.
> 
> However, this only works for a few subfolders of Applications. For
> instance, applications:///Internet won't accept user created desktop
> files. applications:///Accesories will. I have no idea why there is a
> difference.
> 
> In addition, me creating this workaround does nothing for helping to move
> desktop-files from one place to another in the hierarchy via drag and
> drop. This is still broken. Most likely because this doesn't really handle
> vfolders either.
> 
> The correct way will probably be to implement this support into whatever
> common library these cases use, instead of a workaround for each case.
> 
> This is beyond my skills at this point.
> 
> It is however a really critical issue, because Gnome 2 is extremely broken
> if there is a release without a functioning menu-editor.
> I cc'ed this to desktop-devel-list, because if this isn't fixable before
> Gnome 2.0, there need to be an alternative menu-editor.
> 
> To summarize for those who haven't followed the entire discussion:
> 1. I've created a patch that lets Nautilus create launcher-files.
> 2. gnome_desktop_item_save() does not support vFolders, which is used by
> the menu-system, so I started to look at a work-around.
> 3. I have a workaround that seems exceptionally hacky, bad and silly, but
> sort of works for some cases. My workaround is a function
> "gnome_desktop_item_safe_vfolder()".
> 4. The Right Way [tm] is probably to just implement vFolder support into
> gnome_desktop_item_save() or a lower layer that is common between this,
> and drag and dropping to the applications:/// folder.
> 
> Gaute
> 
> 
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