Writing my first Slackbuild and cannot add an entry to KDE games menu

samac · 02-02-2009, 05:40 PM

I believe that I have all the necessary bits and pieces, the Slackbuild works, but I can't get it to add a KDE menu item for the program.

I have a program.desktop file and it has been added to /usr/share/applications. I have a program.png added to /usr/share/pixmaps, I have a doinst.sh but I have no idea if it is running or not.

These are all the files

Code:

/build.sh
/doinst.sh
/README
/slack-desc
/xscrabble-2.12.tar.bz2
/xscrabble.desktop
/xscrabble.info
/xscrabble.png
/xscrabble.Slackbuild/xscrabble.SlackBuild
/xscrabble_en.tar.bz2

The doinst.sh

Code:

if [ -x /usr/bin/update-desktop-database ]; then
/usr/bin/update-desktop-database -q usr/share/applications >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

The xscrabble.desktop

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=xscrabble
Comment=xscrabble - A Scrabble like game
Exec=/usr/X11/bin/xscrabble
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/xscrabble.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Game;

The xscrabble.Slackbuild

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# SlackBuild script for Xscrabble
# Written by Steven A. McIntosh (samac) (mcintosh@cotterochan.co.uk)
#
# This game has it's own install script and this script uses it and
# creates a Slackware package.
#
PRGNAM=xscrabble
VERSION=2.12
ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}

CWD=$(pwd)
TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}

rm -fr $TMP/$PRGNAM $PKG $TMP/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
cd $TMP || exit 1
tar xvjf $CWD/${PRGNAM}-$VERSION.tar.bz2 || exit 1

# Don't trust the ownership/permissions...
chown -R root:root .
chmod -R u+w,go+r-w,a-s .
chmod 755 $PRGNAM-$VERSION

# Make the directories that are needed by Xscrabble's build script
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/pixmaps \
	 $PKG/usr/share/applications 

# Replace the build script with a SBo friendly one and move language files
cp $CWD/build $TMP/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
cp $CWD/xscrabble_en.tar.bz2 $TMP
cd $TMP/$PRGNAM-$VERSION

# Call the Xscrabble build script
./build bin &&
./build install &&
./build lang en &&
./build clean

# OK, put everything where it goes in a proper Slack package...
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/X11/bin \
	 $PKG/install
#
mv $PKG/usr/games/xscrabble $PKG/usr/X11/bin
mv $PKG/usr/games/xscrab $PKG/usr/X11/bin
rmdir $PKG/usr/games

cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.png > $PKG/usr/share/pixmaps/$PRGNAM.png
cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.desktop > $PKG/usr/share/applications/$PRGNAM.desktop
cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
cat $CWD/doinst.sh > $PKG/install/doinst.sh

cd $PKG
/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.tgz

Please keep any suggestions KISS as I am not brilliant at bash scripting.

Thanks

samac

gegechris99 · 02-03-2009, 03:32 AM

Hello Samac,

Try to change line "Categories" in the .desktop file to:

Code:

Categories=Qt;KDE;Game;

This is how "Categories" looks like in kdegames .desktop files.

samac · 02-03-2009, 04:51 AM

Thanks gegechris99, but that did not work, neither did Categories=Application;Game;

I thought that the doinst.sh would update the menu, is there something else that I should be doing?

samac

gegechris99 · 02-03-2009, 04:59 AM

Hello,

Just to make sure, did you try to manually run as root:

Code:

/usr/bin/update-desktop-database -q /usr/share/applications

samac · 02-03-2009, 05:19 AM

OK, interesting. The doinst.sh is running and the xscrabble.desktop works fine with just Categories=Game;

I logged in as root and there was xscrabble in the games menu, but it is not there when I log in as samac. Could it be because I have modified the menu with KDE's menu editor and it is now looking for a different configuration file.

I modified the slackbuild, .desktop and doinst.sh from a package that managed to add itself to my menu, so I am not sure what the problem is, could it be permissions?

samac

gegechris99 · 02-03-2009, 05:47 AM

Hello Samac,

The following how-to will be of interest to you as you modified your KDE Menu:

http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/howtos/kde-menus.htm

I've read it superficially but it addresses how/where modified menus are located.

So yes, your package is working fine but user 'samac' can not see the xscrabble menu entry because you created your own local menu.

samac · 02-03-2009, 06:08 AM

I will have a think on this. Thanks for the link.

samac

Woodsman · 02-03-2009, 04:49 PM

Quote:

I logged in as root and there was xscrabble in the games menu, but it is not there when I log in as samac.

First thing to do is verify the xscrabble.desktop file has 644 and root:root permissions.

Quote:

Could it be because I have modified the menu with KDE's menu editor and it is now looking for a different configuration file.

A local user menu will override the KDE defaults. The user menu is stored at ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu. You can temporarily move that file to see whether something in the configuration is overriding the KDE defaults. Be sure to not be in X/KDE or at least not logged in as that user when you temporarily rename the file.

All of the menu configuration files are basically a list of Include and Exclude directives. Your samac config file might have some kind of Exclude directive for the Games menu.

samac · 02-04-2009, 04:43 AM

Hi Woodsman

xscrabble.desktop file has 644 and root:root permissions.

Changing the name of ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu did not work, though the original did have an exclude for xscrabble.desktop, which I subsequently edited out. That did not work either.

I then created a new user, vanilla, and both they and root have xscrabble in their menus.

samac

Woodsman · 02-04-2009, 02:20 PM

Renaming the user menu should have been sufficient.

Were the directory permissions of ~/.config and ~/.config/menu 755 and samac:samac? Were the permissions of ~/.config/menu//applications-kmenuedit.menu 644 samac:samac?

There is a second directory affecting the user menu. That location is ~/.local/share. In ~/.local/share you will find two directories: applications and desktop-directories. You'll find the Trash directory there too.

Quote:

though the original did have an exclude for xscrabble.desktop, which I subsequently edited out.

Perhaps there remained some remnant in the config file. The Include and Exclude directives are not always easy to follow. Been there done that. Perhaps try using the graphical menu editor to edit the file.

samac · 02-04-2009, 02:56 PM

My directories are 700 and files 644 and all are samac:users this looks perfect to me.

I missed a </exclude> when editing, but I still didn't get a menu entry, but it did give me back my lost+found menu entry, and xscrabble is in it.

Why does KDE's menu system have to be sooooooo complicated?

samac

Woodsman · 02-04-2009, 05:04 PM

Quote:

I missed a </exclude> when editing, but I still didn't get a menu entry, but it did give me back my lost+found menu entry, and xscrabble is in it.

Yup, I have missed entries like that too.

Quote:

Why does KDE's menu system have to be sooooooo complicated?

Good question. I don't know. I wish the menu editor supported global menus. Perhaps 4.x will be better.