Pietro,
Thanks for the bug report.
On 7 March 2009 at 12:24, Pietro Battiston wrote:
| R Commander is used as a graphical interface to R, which means a
| graphical application, and as such should be listed somewhere in the
| Applications menu.
|
| This can be obtained by just adding to the package the following two
| files:
|
| /usr/bin/rcmdr :
|
| ------------------- 8< -------------------------
| #!/bin/sh
| R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES="$R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES Rcmdr" R
|
| ------------------- 8< -------------------------
Can you provide a manual page too, please, as every program in /usr/bin needs
one under Debian Policy.
Alternatively, we plave the 'rcmdr' script in /usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcmdr
which may be a better location anyway, and adapt the desktop file:
| /usr/share/applications/rcmdr.desktop :
|
| ------------------- 8< -------------------------
| [Desktop Entry]
| Categories=Education;Science;Math;
| Comment=Graphical interface to the R environment for statistical
| computing
| Comment[fr]=Environnement graphique pour le logiciel de calcul
| statistique R
| Comment[it]=Interfaccia grafica per l'ambiente di calcolo statistico R
| Exec=/usr/bin/rcmdr
| Icon=/usr/share/R/doc/html/logo.jpg
| Name=R Commander
| Terminal=true
| Type=Application
| X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
|
| ------------------- 8< -------------------------
|
|
| Please notice that:
| - I would have preferred to not put R Commander under "Education", since
| this is quite reductive. However, I'm afraid this is inevitable (see for
| instance [0]).
I don't follow, and I don't see why a gnome.org bugreport is relevant. Debian
has its own hierarchies. For R, I use an (older-style) menu file with
section="Applications/Science/Data Analysis"
Aren't the menu and desktop entries derived the same way?
| - I'm filing the bug here, I frankly ignore if upstream is interested in
| this kind of desktop issues; the maintainer has probably better
| knowledge than me. Anyway, the patch has almost no maintenance cost,
| since it doesn't touch upstream code.
That's a pretty narrow view. The desktop file is not distro-specific, so it
should go upstream. One problem is that Rcmdr, via its R CMD INSTALL
mechanism, has no means of reaching /usr/share/applications/
CCing John upstream.
| - the rcmdr miniscript is itself quite useful (I do use it often); it
| would also be possible for upstream to adopt only that, and then the
| ".desktop" could be added as a Debian patch, don't know.
Same problem. An R package cannot 'reach' /usr/bin.
| - the only thing I don't like in this setup is that menu item uses (jpg)
| R icon, not R Commander's one... that I was unable to find (though it
| appears in the interface, so I imagine is dinamicly generated).
| Eventually, it could be "staticized" and added too
| as /usr/share/pixmaps/rcmdr.svg; then the line of the .desktop file
| could be changed from
| Icon=/usr/share/R/doc/html/logo.jpg
| to
| Icon=rcmdr.svg
| .
Maybe John can help us here?
Dirk
|
| Pietro
|
| [0]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331142
|
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