[Gambas-user] Creating excutibles in version 2

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On 18/09/2005 00:59, Stefano Palmeri wrote:
> Alle 19:21, mercoledì 14 settembre 2005, Rob Kudla ha scritto:
> 
>>I think you misunderstand. Â Konqueror *doesn't* run Gambas
>>applications, despite the shebang. Â It prompts you for a program with
>>which to open your application, ignoring the shebang line altogether,
>>and displays a generic document icon for the application rather than
>>its icon. Â This is true as of KDE 3.4, at least. Â Try it.
> 
> 
> Hi all. This is a little 3 steps HOWTO to make Konqueror run gambas 
> applications when you click on it. 
> 
> Note: YOURKDE is the installation directory of KDE in your system. 
> In my Slackware 10.0 is /opt/kde. To know yours just type 
> on console: kde-config --prefix.
> 
> 1) create the text file YOURKDE/share/mimelnk/application/x-gambas.desktop
> Edit it and add these lines:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Comment=Gambas Executable
> Comment[it]=Eseguibile Gambas
> Icon=binary
> Type=MimeType
> MimeType=application/x-gambas
> 
> 2) create the text file "YOURKDE/share/applnk/.hidden/gbx.desktop"  (see the 
> dot before hidden) 
> Edit it and add these lines:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Exec=gbx -x
> InitialPreference=1
> MimeType=application/x-gambas
> Name=gbx
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> 
> WARNING: next file already exists!!! You have just to edit it... Be 
> carefull!!!
> 
> 3) Edit the file "YOURKDE/share/mimelnk/magic" and add this line:
> 0      string     #!/usr/bin/gbx    application/x-gambas
> 
> That's all. Restart your kde session. The gambas executables
> will have the generic icon "binary" and you will be able
> to run them just clicking on them.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Stefano
> 
> P.S. This is tested with kde 3.2.3 and Slackware 10.0

Thanks Stefano, that's very useful information!

To create an alternative "user" configuration (so that upgrading to a new KDE 
version won't sweep your changes away) I created the files in point 1) and 2) 
in my personal KDE dir (simply change YOURKDE from /opt/kde to ~/.kde, 
Slackware 10.1, KDE 3.4).

Regarding point 3), instead of changing the "central" mime magic file, you can 
safely create a new directory ~/.kde/share/config/magic/.
In this new directory, create a text file named gambas.magic with the same line 
as indicated by Stefano and finally restart the KDE session.

This way you won't touch any original conf files and you don't even need root 
access to make the changes.

Hope it helps.

Ciao,
Piero