Request for clarification on menu/file spec

[Thiago Macieira]

Jeremy White wrote:
>So my need is to figure out where to stick a .desktop file so that
>it will show up in her menu and will correctly launch my app.

If you choose an /opt prefix, the .desktop file should be in
/opt/<app-name>/share/applications

That means the user has to set it up to see it and to run the app. If the 
user doesn't set both PATH and XDG_DATA_DIRS, the app won't be seen. It 
may get worse in the future for icons (shared icon naming, shared icon 
themes, systray handling, etc.) and other features, so XDG_DATA_DIRS has 
to be set.

If you don't want that hassle, install to /usr 
(/usr/bin, /usr/share/applications, etc.)

As for the non-root option, that's an easy one: binary in ~/bin 
and .desktop in ~/.local/share/applications.

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