Re: [gnome-love] At last... I made it...

[Melinda <melinda_sayang hotpop com>]

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 21:36, Sean Middleditch wrote:

> Eek.  No, *only* application binaries go in bin.  Data file resources
> like glade files absolutely do not belong there at all, in any way. 
> Should instead be somewhere like $prefix/share/wallpapoz/.  You can then
> use a library like binreloc (http://www.autopackage.org) to locate the
> correct folder and load the glade file at runtime.

> The Makefile.am files take a list of files and the locations they should
> be installed to.  For example, to put the .glade file in the correct
> location, you'd have something like:
>
> glade_DATA = wallpapaz.glade
> gladedir = ${datadir}/@PACKAGE_TARNAME@/
>
> @PACKAGE_TARNAME@ is expanded to the application name defined in
> configure.in, which should in your case by wallpapoz.  ${datadir} should
> be expanded to ${prefix}/share.  So in the above, automake will make it
> so make install will put the wallpapoz.glade file in
> /usr/share/wallpapoz/wallpapoz.glade, assuming you install to the /usr
> prefix.
>
> If for some reason you cannot use Binreloc and need to hard-code the
> path (*please* don't do this if not necessary; hard-coded paths are the
> devil and make it impossible to relocate your binaries), you'll need to
> tell the app where to find the glade file.  To do this, add something
> like -DDATADIR="${datadir}/@PACKAGE_TARNAME@" to your CFLAGS variable. 
> Then you'll have the DATADIR macro in your code that points to the
> proper directory, so you can find the glade file using DATADIR
> "/wallpapoz.glade" in your code.
Ok, here's my code according to your suggestion:
string blabla = DATADIR + "/wallpapoz.glade"
refXml = Gnome::Glade::Xml::create( blabla );

So how do I define DATADIR in mycode? You said add something like "..."
to your CXXFLAGS variable. But when I search this string:
there are three files that have this variable:
Makefile.old, Makefile.in, configure.
I guess you don't want me to hack Makefile.old and configure script. I
doubt about Makefile.in. 

Ok, what about wallpapoz.desktop? How can I tell 'make install' to put
this stuff into /usr/share/applications. So that my program will be in
Gnome menu. 

Last. What about the icon for the program it self and for the menu? My
Glade file will search the icon in its directory. But when I look for
another GTK-program, usually they put their icon in /usr/share/pixmaps,
so I think I have to hard-code the path. How do I tell 'make install' to
put the icon into /usr/share/pixmaps.

Thank you.