Re: [orca-list] Could it be possible to add a desktop file to Orca

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Didier.

If you look in Orca's icons directory you should find icons you can use
for a downstream desktop file.

HTH.
--joanie

On 11/4/18 6:42 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Hello Alex and others,
>
> Me think, this could as well be added by the packager for distributions who want it.
>
> Even more so as the distro could use a wrapper script to set the environment before starting orca.
>
> Each one has one's method. For instance in Slint we ship a script orca-on, attached.
>
> This being said, if I can get a good pic to associate to an orca.desktop I could include it the menus even 
> though no one requested one so far.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Didier
>
> On 04/11/2018 16:28, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Most of the application can be started by menu but it's not possible to find Orca inside the application 
> > menu. Also when you try to add an application to startup you can browse the currently installed 
> > applications but without desktop file it's no longer possible. See for exempla this issue: 
> > https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-control-center/issues/270 (someone pays 100$ for this just because 
> > we've drop the desktop file)
> >
> > IMO, we should provide a desktop file to Orca. On Windows, both Jaws, NVDA and the narrator are 
> > discoverable by the start menu. I see no reason that make the end-user more happy without desktop file 
> > than he is with.
> >
> > I can figure out what commit drop desktop file and tell you if you want.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Alex.
> >
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