Re: [Bug-freedink] Please create an AppData file for FreeDink - install in datarootdir

[beuc]

Hi Richard,

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:05:21PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 07:39:53PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On 28 May 2014 20:22,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I mentioned the install location issue because your 2 sample patches
> > > use 'datadir' instead of 'datarootdir'.  Do you plan to update them?
> > 
> > Doesn't datadir also contain the destdir? I'm a bit of a buildsystem
> > newbie -- what's the real difference?
> 
> That's what I wrote a couple mails ago:
> 
>   Btw don't recommend to install the files in $(datadir): for Debian
>   games in particular, $(datadir)=/usr/share/games, while
>   $(datarootdir)=/usr/share.  I got the issue with .desktop files.
> 
> More precisely I ended up having my .desktop files in
> /usr/share/games/application/*.desktop - which isn't taken into
> account.  It took me a little while to detect that users installed the
> game but had no way to run it, short of the command line :/
> 
> What could likely happen is that most Debian/Ubuntu games end up
> deploying their appdata.xml in /usr/share/games/appdata/, out of the
> scope of the software center.
> 
> So installing in 'datarootdir' is the way to go.
> Just sharing the hard-earned experience ;)

I'd like to know if you intend to update your sample patches or share
this information about datarootdir somehow.

Cheers!
Sylvain