Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> wrote:
> Am 29.10.2014 12:35, schrieb Joel Rees:
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Quite a few packages ship Debian menu files and/or freedesktop.org
>>> .desktop files for the inclusion in menus. For example, bc installs a
>>> Debian menu file.
>>
>> No kidding?
>>
>> (Looking in my menus and not seeing anything bc-ish.)
>>
>> What menus should I be looking in?
>
> root@jessie1:~# dpkg -L bc | grep menu
> /usr/share/menu
> /usr/share/menu/bc
> root@jessie1:~# cat /usr/share/menu/bc
> ?package(bc):needs="text" section="Applications/Science/Mathematics"
> title="Bc" hints="Calculators" command="/usr/bin/bc"
And that tells me exactly zip about why bc doesn't show up in my XFCE4
menus. (I mean the pointy-clicky ones.)
I suppose I should try booting non-gui and starting up a desktopless
window manager to see if I can get those menus in one of those?
Not that I'm interested in running bc from the menu. What I'm really
interested in is a way not to lose track of all those cool hex editors
and network analyzers that I've installed and forgotten about.
> Taken from a current Jessie VM, bc version 1.06.95-9.
Non-vm Wheezy, FWIW. The bc entry in the debian menu declaration does
not seem to have changed.
> See: <https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/>
Great. Next time I create a package, I'll know where to look for
instructions for setting up menu entries. (No sarcasm intended. I'm
likely to need that within a year, one way or another.)
Which, I must suppose, seeing things as they are, will have a certain
probability of being ignored. But that's okay. The package I will
likely be putting together doesn't really want a gui for most of its
potential users. (All five or so of them. Heh.)
> See also current TC bug about Debian menu system vs. freedesktop.org
> .desktop files, <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741573>
Okay, that gives me the background. Read something about menu-xdg and
about exmenen, but I still can't tell how I can get the menu where bc,
et. al., should be to show up in my actual menus. (Either exmenen
needs something more in the extra menus directories, or I can't figure
out the parameters, or it's not the wookie I'm looking for.)
Thanks anyway. If you have any more suggestions, I'm all ears. There's
something there I just haven't been able to find yet.
--
Joel Rees
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