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

[Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2025 at 23:04, Benoît Minisini <
benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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".
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini


Then you'll have to make a way that gb.gui can ask what toolkit to use
before running a program
Then all the current static desktop actions of gambas3.desktop can be
replaced by one that uses the method that asks first.

Dynamic at install is the best I could do, it's good enough for my fork as
i think it's still an improvement :)

Respects
BruceS