Open ethanc8 opened 7 months ago
Yes gnustep-make supports installing app resources. For instance if your app is called MyApp MyApp_RESOURCE_FILES = MyApp.desktop would install your desktop file as you suggest.
The issue is that desktop files must be installed to a global location to be discovered by the desktop environment. This is a consequence on the non-Mac way of doing things where all files are grouped by purpose rather than by application.
Well obviously, it's make, so adding a rule to your makefile to install particular files to a fixed location is documented, with an example template GNUmakefile.postamble, but I guess that's not what you mean. Perhaps you are wanting to grab information from other people's apps, but that's really not the role of gnustep-make, so it seems unlikely too. Maybe someone else will better understand what you are asking for and be more able to help.
Hello, is it possible for GNUstep make to install the desktop files of applications that include a
.desktop
file in${appname}.app/Resources/${appname}.desktop
? Therefore, the user wouldn't have to manually copy it to/usr/local/share/applications
or~/.local/share/applications
.