On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:49:22PM +0000, Olivier Duchateau wrote: > 2012/11/9 Beeblebrox <zap...@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".
But for desktop applications port maintainers should create one: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html#desktop-entries
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