Prey installer: create a launcher for the game in KDE/Gnome menu

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This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

Reported in version: unspecified
Reported for operating system, platform: Linux, PC

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2009-02-26 15:33:15 -0500, FJA wrote:

I installed Prey as root to make it system-wide, but I don't see a launcher in my K-Menu, I guess in Gnome the launcher lacks too. Would be nice if you could implement this for non-experienced users, who don't know how to create it.

On 2009-03-02 01:18:47 -0500, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

This should be creating a launcher with xdg-utils, and should handle Gnome and KDE (and some other desktop environments, too).

It tries the system-installed version of xdg-utils first; is it possible that it is buggy on your distro?

Or perhaps it installed a launcher for "root" and not for everyone (which is probably a bug in the installer)?

--ryan.

On 2009-03-02 01:20:12 -0500, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

I'm kicking this bug over to the MojoSetup product, since it's not a Prey bug, really. This is just for record keeping: disregard this message.

--ryan.

On 2009-03-02 10:47:56 -0500, FJA wrote:

My system is OpenSuse 11.1, xdg-utils-1.0.2-56.1. The launcher should be placed into /usr/share/applications/ if one installs Prey as root. I created a .desktop file and put into this directory and all users see it in the menu now. If you need logs, I can install the game once again, perhaps it tells you why the launcher doesn't get created in my case.