Re: integrating python applications in the gnome desktop

[Alfonso <euoar yahoo es>]

Emmanuel Pacaud escribió:
> Le dimanche 15 octobre 2006 à 14:44 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro a
> écrit :
>   
> > On Dom, 2006-10-15 at 12:32 +0200, Alfonso wrote:
> >     
> > > I hope this is the right place for this question, sorry if it is not. I 
> > > have googled quite a lot, and couldn't find any tutorial or information 
> > > related with how can I install my python programms in the gnome desktop. 
> > > I'm making programs using python and pygkt. What I would like to do is 
> > > installing them, so that they can be executed just like any other 
> > > application in the applications menu. If I try to execute a python 
> > > program by double click in gnome it appears the dialog asking if I you 
> > > want to show the content of the file or executing it. I know this 
> > > behaviour can be changed using gconf-editor, but I would prefer not to 
> > > change it, and still having my application integrated in the 
> > > applications menu, and executable by double click without intermediate 
> > > messages.
> > >       
> >   Make a .desktop file for your program; it is double-click executable
> > without the annoying dialog.  Plus, you can install it
> > to /usr/share/applications to make it visible in the GNOME menu.
> >
> >     
> > > Any information or links to articles or docs, would be very appreciated.
> > >       
> > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fdesktop_2dentry_2dspec
> >     
>
> There's also this guide:
>
> http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/gnome-isv-guide/index.html
>
> 	Emmanuel.
>
>
>   
Thank you very much for your answers and for the very good links.

I have readed it and make some .desktop files. It works pefectly that 
way with programms that don't make use of glade files. But if the 
program uses glade files for the interface, the launcher doesn't work. 
Neverthless the program works perfectly from the command line...

		
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