[Live-demo] A folder for beta software

[Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio]

--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Live-demo] A folder for beta software
> To: live-demo at lists.osgeo.org, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 1:45 PM
> Cameron:
> > I suggest that we should set up a new category (on the
> same
> > level as Education) called "Geospatial"
> > 
> > So we would have:
> > Geospatial/gvsig
> > Geospatial/geoserver
> > 
> > Geospatial/beta/gvsig-mobile
> 
> fyi a number of scripts already create new menu
> items/branches
> using the WM-independent "update-menus" system.
> 
> e.g. this in install_grass.sh creates a
> Applications/Science/
> Geoscience menu and puts "GRASS GIS" as an entry in it:
> 
> # add menu item
> if [ ! -e /usr/share/menu/grass ] ; then
>    cat << EOF >
> /usr/share/menu/grass
> ?package(grass):needs="text"\
>   section="Applications/Science/Geoscience"\
>   title="GRASS GIS"\
>   command="/usr/bin/grass$GVER"\
>   icon="/usr/share/icons/grass-48x48.png"
> EOF
> 
>    update-menus
> fi
> 
> 
> I'm not really opposed to it, but I'm not entirely sure why
> we
> need a second parallel method to do the same thing.
> 
> $ man update-menus
> ...
> DESCRIPTION
>        Before the advent of
> update-menus, when the system  administra-
>        tors  installed a
> package onto a Debian system, they would need
>        to edit various window
> manager configuration files to make  the
>        new  program 
> show  up on, for example, fvwm's menus. The menus
>        could easily become out of
> sync with what programs  were  actu-
>        ally  available, 
> with  some  menu  items that didn't work,
> and
>        other programs that
> lacked  a  menu 
> entry.   update-menus  and
>        Debian's menu package aim
> to solve this problem.
> 
>        update-menus 
> automatically  generates  menus of installed pro-
>        grams for window managers
> and other menu programs. It should be
>        run  whenever 
> a  menufile(5)  or  menu-method file is
> changed.
>        update-menus will be
> run  automatically  when  Debian 
> packages
>        that  contain 
> menu  files are installed on or removed from the
>        system.
> 
>        update-menus uses the
> package-supplied  menu  entry  files 
> (in
>        /usr/share/menu)  for
> its information about the menus (but this
>        can be overruled by the
> system administrator/user; see  below).
>        If  a  menu entry
> file is executable, update-menus executes the
>        menu entry file, and
> uses  its  stdout  to  generate 
> the  menu
>        database.
> 
> 
> 
> > Once you have worked out how it should be done, could
> you
> > please also update the build wiki so that others can
> follow
> > your steps.
> > 
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build
> 
> (renamed that to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Build  btw)
> 
> 
> 
> Hamish


Hello,

FYI, I have noticed three remarkable things regarding install_kosmo_2beta.sh :

- it's not called from main.sh
- it prompts the user for input (read USER_NAME)
- it's a beta version but adds an icon to the desktop

I'm currently preparing a simple way to automatically add start icons to a submenu called 'Geospatial Beta software'.

Regards,
Juan Lucas