[Live-demo] A folder for beta software

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Mon Feb 1 17:28:03 PST 2010


Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio wrote:
> Hello. Please have a look at this screenshot:
> 
> http://gvsigmobileonopenmoko.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/edit_menu.jpg
> 
> That's a Xubuntu 9.10 live CD with the applications menu slightly modified by adding some 10 lines to a certain XML file:
> 
> /etc/xdg/xubuntu/menus/xfce-applications.menu
> 
> I guess your Xubuntu 9.10 also has that XML in the same place. This additional line:
> 
> Categories: Beta;
> 
> has to be then written in the *.desktop files that are considered beta software, as I have done with that application called Tali.
> 
> If you are interested in this modification, I think I can help you write the script to do it automatically.
> 
> Regards,
> Juan Lucas
> 

By all means please feel free to write a script that would do that.
Either post it or add it as an optional section in the install_desktop.sh

I think we passed on it last time because we didn't have enough time to
work out a script to do the process. I did however research the solution
and came to the same conclusion as you.

Thanks,
Alex

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