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

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 05/11/2025 à 14:45, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Sorry, but this is rather wrong.
>
> The 'gambas3.desktop' is installed with the 'gambas3-ide' package, which 
> is the package for the Gambas3 IDE (obviously).
>
> This package depends on 'gb.gui', that has a dependency on ONE of the 
> actual GUI package, not ALL.
>
> For example, on Debian:
>
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------
> Package: gambas3-gui
> Architecture: all
> Section: libdevel
> Depends: gambas3-gb-gtk (>= ${binary:Version}) | gambas3-gb-gtk3 (>= 
> ${binary:Version}) | gambas3-gb-qt5 (>= ${binary:Version}) | gambas3-gb- 
> qt6 (>= ${binary:Version})
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So you have no guarantee that if GTK3, QT5 and QT6 exist on the distro, 
> they will be installed. Hopefully I would add.
>
> So the post-install script should recreate the 'gambas3.desktop' file 
> each time any Gambas package is installed or removed, only if the Gambas 
> 3 IDE is installed, by checking if 'gb.XXX.webview' component is 
> installed for XXX among 'gtk3','qt5' and 'qt6'.
>
> Otherwise, for me, it is useless.
>
> Regards,

OK, I have just read your merge request.

You test the 'gb.xxx' components, but this is not enough. You must test 
the 'gb.xxx.webview' components (if present, it will imply that 
'gb.xxx.component' is also present).

But I don't know if that post-install script is run each time a Gambas 
package is installed or removed, and only if the gambas3 IDE is installed.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.