Add create menu shortcut on linux about desurium

[Protektor-Desura]

I believe there is a FHS standard for adding shortcuts/icons for Linux.

[ssokolow]

There is a standard and it's elegantly simple to the point of almost being ridiculous. Just create a .desktop file like this example one:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application

Name=FooGame
Comment=A game of foo
Comment[fr]=Un jeu de foo

TryExec=/home/username/opt/desura/common/foo-game/value_of_iteminfo.installcheck
Exec=/home/username/opt/desura/common/foo-game/desura_launch_Play.sh
Icon=/home/username/opt/desura/common/foo-game/absolute_path_value_of_iteminfo.icon

Categories=Game;BoardGame;Java;

...and then use one or both of these commands to install it:

xdg-desktop-icon install YourIcon.desktop
xdg-desktop-menu install YourIcon.desktop

The man pages for both of those commands give you a concise and helpful introduction to the .desktop file spec, but it's not necessarily up-to-date on what is required and optional, so I strongly suggest spending the 15 minutes to read the actual spec itself at http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

If nothing else, you'll want to go above and beyond the man pages by mapping any category information Desura can provide to the Categories field so Desura doesn't annoy people who are used to having their launcher menus automatically categorize icons for them. (Or, at the very least, set Categories=Game;)

The registered list of valid categories is at http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

[Jookia]

I'm a very big fan of the standards there. In fact, I implemented the XDG directory standard.

[ssokolow]

Agreed.

I'd actually be trying to convert my little Python script for setting icons on STATUS_LINK entries into some C++/JS patch to use XDG menus to resolve commands to icons but I haven't yet been able to make time to track down why the Desurium build instructions fail on my Lubuntu Oneiric desktop.

[Jookia]

ssokolow, i highly recommend you check out karolherbst's fork, it uses CMake.

[ssokolow]

Thanks. I actually would normally be keeping an eye on the network view, but I've been overworked lately and forgot. I'll give it a try as soon as I can make time.

[karolherbst]

look here:
karolherbst/Desurium@master...bug29

any suggestions?

I think about to move the whole desktop creation stuff into ItemInfo

[karolherbst]

we should add a functionality to add games to the application menu on Linux and on Windows (if it isn't there already)

[ssokolow]

In Windows, that would be partially covered by issue #138. I'm unfamiliar with the ins and outs of jumplists, though, so I don't know how much it would cover.

[karolherbst]

yes I will add this to bug #138, so I can close this for the Linux part later

[karolherbst]

fixed since fd3f6d4