.desktop file and icon

[Yuri Pankov]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:00:53AM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote:
> I have an app (kbtv2) that I want to get committed to ports soon.
> 
> Where do I put the .desktop file and icon (or I'll just refer to the latter 
> through absolute path) so that it gets picked up by the various desktop 
> environments (prefix/share/applications/foo.desktop does not seem to work 
> here in kde3)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan

Try using update-desktop-database from devel/desktop-file-utils. Check
security/seahorse/{Makefile,pkg-plist}, for example, and
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/porting.html "Desktop database"
section (should be DE independent, though).


HTH,
Yuri