[Nix-dev] libreoffice icons

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 20/08/12 04:09, Sergey Mironov wrote:

> Kirill, I suppose, explicit creation of desktop icons is a kind of
> workaround for programs which don't do it or do it in a strange way.
> Normally, applications should install icons somewhere in
> $out/share/icons (don't remember exactly) using their own install
> system. I just want to figure out whether we need to add
> makeDesktopItem to libreOffice's expression or not.
> 
> I'm using xfce and I don't see desktop items for LibreOffice, what is
> KDE's situation?

I see desktop items in $out/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg (e.g. writer.desktop).
However that's an incorrect location AFAIK, it should be
$out/share/applications.  So maybe we should just add a symlink from the latter
to the former.

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