Configure script

azlan · Post by **azlan** » December 18th, 2003, 8:14 am

I thought of we should find out if the user has SDL_image with PNG support and not Just SDL_Image..
Becouse i dont have Png support but don't get any error messages..

Exept for when running the game..

And maby we could add, to find where Kde, Gnome and other WM that we can make a mime/type and make a link in the menu with assigned icon.. That would make it look good and pro like..

ziberpunk · Post by **ziberpunk** » December 18th, 2003, 7:47 pm

azlan wrote:I thought of we should find out if the user has SDL_image with PNG support and not Just SDL_Image..
Becouse i dont have Png support but don't get any error messages..

Ok, I'll do it. I'll check other options in libs that are requested by wesnoth aswell.

azlan wrote: And maby we could add, to find where Kde, Gnome and other WM that we can make a mime/type and make a link in the menu with assigned icon.. That would make it look good and pro like..

I'll try to do this aswell, but I don't know how to do it, so you'll have to wait a bit more ;P

Post by **fmunoz** » December 18th, 2003, 10:50 pm

You could look at the mandrake rpm about where are the menus and mime/types

yawningdog · Post by **yawningdog** » December 18th, 2003, 11:01 pm

Menu entries are defined by .desktop files. I'm not sure about their specific structure or internals; looking at examples from other packages would helps, as fmunoz said.

Here's a quick link I found. It tells how things are done with gnome, but I understand it should work with any other freedesktop.org compliant desktop (KDE, XFCE, etc):
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/menuediting.html

ziberpunk · Post by **ziberpunk** » December 19th, 2003, 2:42 pm

There seem to be some config programs:gnome-config, kde-config; that tell where .desktop should be located.

According to the link, however, .desktop should be located in $prefix/share/applications, and there're a lot of .desktop but I think that they don't appear correctly in menus.

It seems that the organization of these files is a bit of a mess, so I'll investigate a bit further to see which is the proper way to do it.

ziberpunk · Post by **ziberpunk** » December 20th, 2003, 1:02 pm

Changes suggested are now in CVS and latest snapshot aswell.

About the PNG check:
*) configure checks for PNG support in SDL_image (and gives an error if not found)
*) configure checks for OGG support in SDL_mixer (and gives a warning if not found)

About the menu:
*) configure searches gnome1. If found installs application icon and menu entry accordingly
*) configure searches KDE. If found installs application icon and menu entry accordingly
*) In any case, application icon and menu entry are installed in $prefix/share/icons and $prefix/share/applicactions respectively
*) If you don't want to install icons and menu entries, there's an option ./configure --disable-icons

azlan · Post by **azlan** » December 20th, 2003, 6:29 pm

Nice.. It's looking like a real configure script now..

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