In Fedora Gnome…
Using a .desktop file in my rpm, I have successfully put my gui software into the gnome application menu.
I am wondering if there is a way to also put the icon onto the gnome desktop when installing the rpm?
update:
Now I can get rpmbuild to successfully use rpmbuild with xdg-desktop-icon in %install… and in the process puts an icon on my desktop (before even installing the rpm!) I am doing something wrong. Any suggestions?
Here is the relevant part of my spec file:
Source1: %{name}.desktop
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
BuildRequires: gettext, python-devel, desktop-file-utils, xdg-utils
...
%install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%{__python} setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
desktop-file-install --dir=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/applications %{SOURCE1}
xdg-desktop-icon install --novendor %{SOURCE1}
This thread will help anyone who comes here looking for more information:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2011-February/007602.html