gconf schemas + .desktop file question

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 06:16:42PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On 12/9/11 1:44 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > thus my question is: is it ok to install them without setting some
> > USE_GNOME=gconf magic and calling `update-desktop-database' in makefile?
> > i'd rather not pull these dependencies, but if i have too, i'd appreciate
> > some hints of what should i include if corresponding OPTION would be set.
> > 
> > so far i may just install them as plain files, with no gnomish dependencies
> > recorded.
> 
> You need to run gconftool-2 to properly install schema, which means that
> gconf will need to be installed.  For the .desktop file, look at
> x11/xterm.  They do a good job of making this optional.
> 
> For gconf schema installation, look at deskutils/akamaru.

Yes, I used xterm port for inspiration to my original question.  :-)
Thanks for pointer to deskutils/akamaru, I will take a look and hopefully
implement something nice and working.

./danfe