On 15 January 2010 at 09:00, Denis Laxalde wrote: | Hi, | | Le jeudi 14 janvier 2010 à 20:00 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | > Maybe you could just a two-liner in /usr/local/bin/, say /usr/local/bin/Rcmdr | > that contains | > | > #!/bin/sh | > sh /usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcmdr/etc/linux/Rcmdr.sh | > | > (minus the indentation) and you then load this ? You'd also have to place | > the .desktop file in the right place by hand, I can't do that easily for the | > package as all files belonging to the package end up below | > /usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcmdr | > | | Wouldn't it be possible to just modify the 'Exec' line in the .desktop | file that is shipped in the package to make it work ? | Something like: | Exec=sh /usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcmdr/etc/linux/Rcmdr.sh
Not a bad idea. Does that work for you? All this is, as far as I know, only in Rcmdr as someone will invariably have suggested it to John Fox who almost surely said 'why not' and included it. He is primarily a Windows user. | Otherwise, I don't really see the interest of adding a menu entry that | does not work. | An other alternative would be to disable it by default and let the | user/administrator the possibility to add it by hand (as this is done | for ipython for example). Fine with me too. I would like the Debian-specific tweaking to be as minimal as possible. If you suggested change works, we can patch it and report the change upstream. If we not we can remove it -- or just leave it as an example that local sysamins could look at. Dirk | | Cheers, | | Denis | -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
