RPMs and *.desktop files

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Mon March 1 2004 23:15, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm creating RPM packages and I want to include *.desktop files with
> them that are automaticly installed in the correct directory.
> Because the directory can differ from one distro to another, I already
> figured I needed to do the creation of the files in the postinstall
> section of the RPM.
> When detecting where to put the files, the default XDG_DATA_DIRS lists
> /usr/local/share as more important than /usr/share though. I'm putting
> the files of my program in /usr and not /usr/local, so /usr would also
> seem more appropriate for the *.desktop files.

Just keep the *.desktop files in the same tree as the application: so if the 
application binary installs to /usr/bin, then you should install the 
*.desktop files to /usr/share/applications

Cheers,
Waldo
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