Re: gEDA-user: Testing of GIT HEAD, new MIME icons etc...

[Bert Timmerman <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,

These icons look great !

You and Tomaz Solc have taken things to yet another level ;-)

One typo on your page though: I think the "Excillon" files are actually
named "Excellon".

Thanks and kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 02:50 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm sending this to the user list in the hope of getting more eyeballs
> on it.
> 
> We now have MIME icons for gEDA files (schematic, symbol and gsch2pcb
> project), and these should (if gEDA is installed on the path) launch the
> appropriate apps (gschem / xgsch2pcb) if they are installed.
> 
> See the MIME icons at:
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/icons/mime/
> 
> And (temporary) app icons:
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/geda/icons/app/
> 
> Better yet, try it out!
> 
> git clone git://git.gpleda.org/gaf.git
> 
> You will need intltool as an additional build dependency.
> 
> 
> I'd appreciate feedback on whether it works on your boxen, whether you
> have to "out out" of the mime and desktop cache updates:
> 
> ./configure --disable-update-desktop-database  <--(gschem and gattrib
> install .desktop files)
> ./configure --disable-update-mime-database     <--(libgeda installs
> mime-type definitions)
> 
> These configure flags _will_ be needed for building .deb and .RPM
> packages.
> 
> The location of icon / mime installation is controlled with the
> --with-xdgdir=... configure argument. It defaults to $(DATAROOTDIR),
> which would usually be ${PREFIX}/share.
> 
> For KDE < 4.0, we install a .desktop version of the mime registration.
> The location can be controlled with the --with-kdedir=... configure
> argument. It defaults to ${PREFIX}.
> 
> For home directory installs, you will need:
> 
> --with-xdgdir=/home/<USERID>/.local/share
> --with-kdedir=/home/<USERID>/.kde
> 
> The toplevel master Makefile passes these as default options now,
> although you might have to poke the build system a bit to ensure it gets
> to the subordinate ./configure invocations. make reconfig / make config
> might help.
> 
> 
> You will get menu entries from the .desktop files. These won't actually
> work unless you can install gEDA in a location where it will be found
> from the desktop-session's path. (PREFIX=/usr/local/ is probably the
> easiest way to achieve that, in which case the --with-xdgdir and
> --with-kdedir should be left out or pointed at /usr/local/share
> and /usr/local respectively.).
> 
> 
> Please send feedback. Especially package maintainers who this might
> affect.
> 
> 



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