Re: gambas3.desktop install idea to detect installed toolkits...

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 04/11/2025 à 23:55, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> Yes I think you did miss something , I found a way it can be dynamic. :)
>
> For the autotools install we have line 35 of app/Makefile.am that 
> installs the gambas3.desktop menu file...
>   xdg-desktop-menu install --novendor $(srcdir)/desktop/gambas3.desktop; \
>
> I replaced that line for a line that runs a script instead that 
> dynamically makes a gambas3.desktop file in /tmp and installs that one.
>   sh -c $(srcdir)/desktop/make.gambas3desktop; \
>
> the script is fairly simple...
> https://gitlab.com/bsteers4/gambas/-/blob/bruces-patched/app/desktop/ 
> make.gambas3desktop?ref_type=heads <https://gitlab.com/bsteers4/ 
> gambas/-/blob/bruces-patched/app/desktop/make.gambas3desktop?ref_type=heads>
>
> and Willy has tested using the make.gambas3desktop script as the 
> postinst script of the deb based repositories (deb12, deb13 and 
> ubuntu24) and it works that way too.
>
> so it's not static for us now, it's dynamically correct :)
>
> Respects
> BruceS

Not really. When I say "dynamic", I mean "when you click on the Gambas 
desktop icon", not "when you install Gambas".

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Benoît Minisini.