[gentoo-dev] trouble with make_desktop_entry

[gentoo-dev] trouble with make_desktop_entry

[Nick Rout]

I am writing an ebuild and wishing to use make_desktop_entry

I have two problems with it:

1. the resulting desktop file is called laby-laby.desktop rather than
just laby.desktop

2. the "Comment" in the desktop file says "Comment=Based on the eutils eclass"

1. I am unable to work out at all, except to say that my frozen-bubble
entry is named similarly (ie frozen-bubble-frozen-bubble.desktop) and is
also created by make_desktop_entry

2. seems to arise from this in /usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass

[snip]
DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"
[snip]
echo "[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.9.2
Name=${name}
Type=Application
Comment=${DESCRIPTION}
Exec=${exec}
Path=${path}
Icon=${icon}
Categories=Application;${type};" > "${desktop}"

I would have thought perhaps that DESCRIPTION would have been the same
as the line in the ebuild.

DESCRIPTION="Lost Labyrinth, a rogue like game"

is this a bug?

The line in my ebuild is:

make_desktop_entry laby "Lost Labyrinth" ${PN}.xpm "Game;RolePlaying;"

Thanks for any suggestions. this line appears in /usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass

# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/eutils.eclass,v 1.194 2005/08/09 22:40:39 vapier Exp $


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Re: [gentoo-dev] trouble with make_desktop_entry

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 28 August 2005 09:42 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
> 1. the resulting desktop file is called laby-laby.desktop rather than
> just laby.desktop

the name doesnt matter just ignore it

> 2. the "Comment" in the desktop file says "Comment=Based on the eutils
> eclass"

your ebuild is using 'inherit' incorrectly
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Re: [gentoo-dev] trouble with make_desktop_entry

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:54:41 -0400
Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Sunday 28 August 2005 09:42 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
> > 1. the resulting desktop file is called laby-laby.desktop rather than
> > just laby.desktop
> 
> the name doesnt matter just ignore it

OK

> 
> > 2. the "Comment" in the desktop file says "Comment=Based on the eutils
> > eclass"
> 
> your ebuild is using 'inherit' incorrectly

Got you, in fact I had the eclasses howto (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=2)
open as I got your message and see that "The contents of the eclass will be sourced at this point."

All makes sense now, I moved the inherit line to the top (below the header)
and all is fine.

Thanks for your help. ebuilds look easyish when you first look at them,
but actually writing even a small one requires a lot of learning. Like a
lot of code, easier to muddle your way through "what this file does"
than "make one yourself".

Thanks for continuing to make the system so powerful boys and girls.

> -mike
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