[desktop-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - early draft

[Calum Benson]

On 12 Mar 2008, at 16:30, Kyle McDonald wrote:
>
> That said, will applications installed by the new pkg(5) system be  
> able to insert themselves into the GNOME menus automatically through  
> some sort of pkg(5) action/SMF 'rebuild/merge' service like I've  
> been seeing described for other things (fonts, etc.)
> on the pkg discuss list?

(pkg-discuss snipped from follow-ups, as the answer doesn't really  
have anything to do with packaging...)

Yes, that should be possible.  The GNOME panel has always been capable  
of monitoring the standard locations in which .desktop files are  
installed, and updating the menus automatically as required. We just  
haven't been able to take advantage of this in OpenSolaris until very  
recently, because we were stuck with polling for changes rather than  
having proper event notification.  But we should now be able to use  
gamin to do this.

(On a related note, we do plan to update the spec to include the menu  
locations of the most common downloadable apps, such as OpenOffice etc.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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