update-desktop-database location

[cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)]

On Thursday 09 February 2006 13:54, Karl Pietrzak wrote:
> On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:03, Christian Westgaard wrote:
> > So I'm back to scripting individual tests per distro and gnome/kde
> > version.
>
> Isn't there some way we could create a library which would wrap these
> per-distributions differences?  So a developer could just go "install
> this .desktop file", and it would go to the necessary locations for KDE,
> GNOME, or both?

checking my (debian-sid) system I have a /usr/bin/desktop-file-install which 
seems to do just that judging by a quick look at the man-page (belongs to 
the desktop-file-utils package). 

Do other distro's have a similar program?
-- 
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis):
    Coördinator Belgisch Skolelinux team
    Coördinator Nederlandse Skolelinux vertaling
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