gEDA-dev: mime icons etc...

[Peter TB Brett]

On Friday 16 May 2008 13:35, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> Speaking of mime icons and such, is the desktop integration supposed
> to work out-of-the-box?
>
> Because it sure doesn't on my brand new ubuntu (gnome) install.  After
> install git gEDA/gaf with various --with-xdgdatadir and friend flags (the
> defaults), I launch nautilus in a directory with schematics and I don't
> see the pretty icons and double clicking on a schematic does nothing.
>
> Any thoughts as to what could be wrong?

Quite a lot of distros have the window manager launched via a setgid wrapper 
(e.g. to start a DBUS daemon or start ssh-agent)[1]. This strips 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, at least (maybe some other env variables necessary for 
$HOME-installed gEDA). I still can't use desktop integration except with 
distro packages...

                               Peter


[1] Although this -is- a bug, very few distros seem willing to do anything 
about it. Rumour has it that it's fixed in Fedora 9: when I upgrade, I'll try 
it out.