On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Peter Alcibiades < palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Jacque, I never did either of these things, but it looks like you can > preserve execution bit attributes using tar with the mode option. > > > http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_tool_guides/tar_user_guide/Option-Summary.html > > Then, to set the icon programmatically, it seems you have to create a > .desktop file. > > http://linuxcritic.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/anatomy-of-a-desktop-file/ > > Andre will know! > Actually, I don't!!!!! :-D But.... tar and gzip are the prefered way to compress linux stuff. You can also use .tar.xz files which compress better than tar.gz and will work just fine in any modern linux. As for icons, I think it really depends on which DE the user is running, for gnome you can use something like this: http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/menustructure-desktopentry.html.en <http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/menustructure-desktopentry.html.en> http://library.gnome.org/devel/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html.en You might need some other solution for KDE and XFCE, for all the other environments, you can be positive that your user is savvy enough to know what to do. Running stuff such as awesome or dwm already makes one a poweruser. If you build .deb files or .rpm, I think there is a post-install script somewhere which you can hook to automatically copy your .desktop file to the correct place. Cheers andre > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Linux-standalone-distibution-tp3235370p3235701.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
