Dear list,
especially in educational settings, there is an increasing pool of
platform independent Java applications (JARs) that can be integrated in
users' desktops.
While Java JDK is freed nowadays, those JAR files are mostly
closed-source (bluej, javakara, jprologeditor, greenfoot etc.).
Rather than creating wrapping deb-packages with binary content
('dirty'), I'd suggest a straight-forward policy plus some desktop
integration tool for admins:
RFC:
- place all jar files to /usr/share/java or /usr/lib/jar
- register desktop relevant jar files in /etc/debian-desktop-jar.conf
like this:
[BlueJ]
exec="java -jar /usr/lib/jar/bluej22.jar"
menu="BlueJ Java Editor"
icon=/usr/share/icons/misc/bluej.png
...
- add some hook that makes those icons show in desktop menus
- provide some tool that helps registering such JAR apps.
Maybe there is already such approach. In some way it would be handy if
the proposed /etc/debian-desktop-jar.conf could be spreaded easily to
further desktops. This would imply packaging all files mentioned there
(jar files, icons) for further deployment.
Especially for Schools running Debian (Edu) such policy/tool could be
very helpful.
Please comment on this.
Kind regards
Ralf
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