GNS3 Linux desktop integration

[b-ehlers]

With commit 6dda0ff and 6265108 the GNS3 icons are installed into /usr/local/share/icons. That's a very nice improvement for the Linux desktop integration. But I like to suggest some additional steps:

• The MIME icons are installed in /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/mimetypes, at least in my installation they work better in /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/*/mimetypes.
• The gns3.desktop file is installed in share/applications in the gns3-gui module library path, I would prefer installing it in /usr/local/share/applications.
• The MIME file /usr/local/share/mime/packages/gns3-gui.xml is missing.

GNS3 version and operating:

• OS: Debian Linux 10 (Buster)
• GNS3 version 2.2.4

[b-ehlers]

And I would prefer, when the mimetypes icons get the execute permission revoked. It's likely caused by copying them from a Windows system.

[grossmj]

I added the MIME file and changed the paths. However, for the files to be installed in /usr/local/share I think you must use something like pip3 install --user gns3-gui or python3 setup.py install --user. If this doesn't work, try with --prefix=/usr/local.

[b-ehlers]

Thanks for your fast response, you have fulfilled all my wishes (well, regarding this issue 😃).

I've tried several pip3 install and python3 setup.py install installation options in my Debian Buster. The first two commands install from PyPi, the last two command from source.

install command	share folder	python modules
pip3 install --user gns3-gui	/home/user/.local/share	/home/user/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gns3
sudo pip3 install gns3-gui	/usr/local/share	/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/gns3
sudo python3 setup.py install	/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/gns3_gui-2.2.5-py3.7.egg/share	/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/gns3_gui-2.2.5-py3.7.egg/gns3
sudo pip3 install .	/usr/local/share	/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/gns3

The --user installs in the user's home directory, that's fine when only one user wants to use GNS3.

I was a bit suprised, that python3 setup.py install and pip3 install . behave differently. With python3 setup.py install the data directories (share in our example) are located as subdirectories in the python library path, while pip3 install . stores them in /usr/local.

For my needs the best way is sudo pip3 install gns3-gui when installing from PyPi and sudo pip3 install . when installing from source.

I'm totally pleased with the current state, close this issue?

[grossmj]

Thanks for the feedback!