[Live-demo] next steps

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 4 21:42:35 PST 2008


Stefan Hansen  wrote:
> As far as menus and desktop items are concerned, I had a
> look at the stuff Hamish suggested. It didn't quite work
> so far with Xfce, but I'm still hopeful to work that out
> somehow.

did you run "update-menus"  after adding menu files to /usr/share/menu?
see also /etc/menu/README and /etc/menu-methods/README

for Desktop icons you might try putting stuff in /etc/skel/ ?
(I don't know if user account is created on-the-fly or not)


> Another thing where we might run into troubles are the
> example-projects for the applications. They might hard code
> the path to the home directory.

time will tell I guess.


perhaps creating a symlink or two could help:
 ln -s /usr/local/share/data /home/$USER/data
?


Hamish



      




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