Re: [Nautilus-list] [PATCH] Creating launchers

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 3 Apr 2002, Diego González wrote:

> hi
> 
> 	This patch is a first approach at implementing launcher creation from
> nautilus, to create a launcher gnome-desktop-item-edit is called (is a
> program distributed with gnome-panel).
> 
> Advantages of this approach:
> 
> * the code to create launchers is very easy and short
> * consistent UI with the way launchers are created in other parts of the
> desktop
> 
> Issues:
> 
> 1 gnome-desktop-item-edit doesn't exit sometimes, i don't know why
> 2 the launchers do not show inmediately after creating them (i've been
> told that in XP this also happends)
> 3 launchers don't show in the same place (in the desktop) where they
> were created.
> 4 i think that when selecting the launcher's properties
> gnome-desktop-item-edit should also be called
> 
> regards,
> Diego
> 
> PD: i there is any interest in this approach just tell me and i will try
> to solve issues 3 and 4.

Does this work? I haven't tried the patch, but launching 
"gnome-desktop-item-edit --create-new /home/devel/alexl/.gnome-desktop/", 
(which is what the patch does) crashes when i try to save the file.

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