Re: installing GUI launchers and mimes
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El 31/07/17 a les 03:23, Charles Plessy ha escrit:
> Le Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 11:55:20AM +0200, Narcis Garcia a écrit :
>>
>> Do you mean that with only having at the package:
>> ./usr/share/applications/xxx.desktop
>> ./usr/share/mime/packages/xxx.xml
>> triggers are automatically run?
>
> Hello Narcis,
>
> yes they will:
>
> $ grep usr/share/applications /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/File
> /usr/share/applications mime-support/noawait
> /usr/share/applications desktop-file-utils
> /usr/share/applications gnome-menus/noawait
>
> $ grep usr/share/mime/packages /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/File
> /usr/share/mime/packages shared-mime-info
>
> See /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/triggers.txt.gz for (a lot of) details.
>
>> Why transmission-gtk/postinst calls update-menus and update-mime ? Is it
>> some kind of compatibility measure?
>
> The short answer is: "because transmission-gtk/postinst is generated by debhelper
> fia dh_installmenu".
>
> $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/transmission-gtk.postinst
> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
> # Automatically added by dh_installmenu
> if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -x "`which update-menus 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
> update-menus
> fi
>
> I am not sure why this is still needed while there is already a dpkg trigger
> doing the work.
>
> Anyway, as noted elsewhere, the Debian menu system is being phased out.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
Thanks, this is really useful information.
I suppose "Debian menu system" is not the same as what xdg-desktop-menu
manages (?) because it currently works perfectly to manually install any
launcher on any desktop on any distro.
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