fixing missing launch icons

[Olivier Duchateau]

2012/11/9 Beeblebrox <zaphod at berentweb.com>:
> Some ports fail to create the launch icon (menu item) in the desktop menu. To
> correct this, one is to add in /usr/local/share/application a file by
> <portname>.desktop like so:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=<portname>
> GenericName=<Detailed Name>
> Comment=<whatever>
> TryExec=<portname>
> Exec=<portname>
> Icon=<picture>
> Type=Application
> Categories=<c1>;<c2>;<c3>;
>
> My question is: The menu entries have categories - for example in gnome
> there are Graphics, Office, Internet, etc. How can one specify the category
> placement (under which category) this icon should go?
>

There's specification [1] for create (and understand) desktop menu.

About icons, usually, we can find in /usr/local/share/icons and
/usr/local/share/pixmaps directories.

Note: some ports don't provide .desktop file, it's not necessarily "bug".

[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/

> Thanks and Regards
>
>
>
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olivier