linux-firefox moved to LOCALBASE so icon not found

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:28:22 -0500, Andrew Pantyukhin  
<infofarmer at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 8/1/06, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:
>> linux-firefox now is installed in /usr/local instead of /usr/X11R6. When
>> the gnome desktop tries to access the icon for it, it fails as it is
>> still looking in X11R6.
>>
>> I don't know if this is a port issue of a gnome one, but it's broken.

I haven't check in linux-firefox....so dunno.

> The linux-firefox.desktop has been updated to reference
> the icon file at the right location, but the file itself has moved
> from X11BASE to LOCALBASE.
>
> A workaround would be to
> ln -s /usr/local/share/applications/linux-firefox.desktop
> /usr/X11R6/share/applications/
>
> The problem is we're in X11BASE->LOCALBASE transition,
> so it should all be settled some time soon, but there probably
> will be a lot of minor issues like this one before it does.

GNOME supports both prefixes for long time. I have a few of *.desktop in  
my /usr/local/share/applications/ and work fine as I can see them in my  
GNOME's menu.

Cheers,
Mezz


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