two very minor items

[uckelman]

Thus spake Thomas Russ:

I just checked this on Darwin (Mac OS X Unix), using sh, and the $()
works.

Good. It should, as it’s part of the POSIX standard.

The problem is that Darwin uses the BSD readlink rather than the Gnu
readlink and they behave differently:

• The “-f” flag is not supported. The only flag available is “-n” to
  suppress a trailing newline.
• If the argument given to readlink is NOT a symbolic link, then
  NOTHING is printed. This is serious.

Ok, then I’ll replace ‘readlink -f “$0”’ with ‘readlink “$0” || echo “$0”’.

Try svn4597.

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[IrishBouzouki]

@timpelican

From memory, you’re running Xubuntu, not vanilla Ubuntu, right?

Yes.

@timpelican

Regular Ubuntu users who haven’t been messing with anything will get a Gnome desktop, where the usual method of “add a launcher” (to either the desktop or one of the application menus) will give something that does the Right Thing. (i.e. run the script from its original location, not symlinked to the Desktop folder).

Okay.

[mcbeth]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 05:27:22PM -0800, IrishBouzouki wrote:

timpelican wrote:

Regular Ubuntu users who haven’t been messing with anything will get a Gnome desktop, where the usual method of “add a launcher” (to either the desktop or one of the application menus) will give something that does the Right Thing. (i.e. run the script from its original location, not symlinked to the Desktop folder).

The way Gnome and KDE (and ROX and more) do it is not by creating a symbolic
link, but rather by creating a “Desktop Entry” file as defined in the
freedesktop standards (link follows)

standards.freedesktop.org/deskto … ec/latest/

Unfortunately, I deleted my link just the other day, so I don’t have an
example for you (although I assure you it works). I was unable to find
evidence one way or another as to XFCE using that particular standard,
although support of the FreeDesktop standards is the in thing with desktop
managers these days.

I’ll try to get around to creating an example later today.

Jeff

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[IrishBouzouki]

I did notice in xfce if you right click on the desktop (not on VASSAL.sh) you have an option to “add launcher” which may be more in line with what one is supposed to do. Being a linux noob… I just assumed one should right click on the VASSAL.sh and create a link just like a windows user would.

in any case, I tried Joel’s latest edit above on my system and it (still) works.