[CF List] A way to add crossfire to your X menus

[Bob Tanner]

Please tell me where Mandrake will look for the menu and icons and I'll adjust
the rpm.

The rpm is pretty much GNOME, Redhat friendly as that is all I got :-) But I'd
like to the rpm friendly to all RPM based distros.


Quoting Kevin R. Bulgrien (
     
     kbulgrien at worldnet.att.net
     
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      It appears that the tclug-menu rpm is meant to add a menu option for
     
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      the clients...
     
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      This doesn't work on my installation of Mandrake 8.0 - I do not have 
     
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      gnome installed, only KDE.  (As a result, I suppose I wonder why it
     
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      is a requirement on the crossfire-client rpms.)
     
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      To add a crossfire client to my user's menus, I had to create the 
     
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      following files:
     
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      krb at krayp120
      
       krb]$ cat /usr/lib/menu/gcfclient
     
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      ?package(crossfire-client-gtk):\
     
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      needs="x11"\
     
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      section="Amusement/Adventure"\
     
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      title="Crossfire GTK Client"\
     
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      longtitle="The GTK Client for Crossfire"\
     
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      command="/usr/bin/gcfclient"\
     
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      icon="crossfire-client.png"
     
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      krb at krayp120
      
       krb]$ cat /usr/lib/menu/cfclient
     
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      ?package(crossfire-client):\
     
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      needs="x11"\
     
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      section="Amusement/Adventure"\
     
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      title="Crossfire Client"\
     
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      longtitle="The Client for Crossfire"\
     
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      command="/usr/bin/cfclient"\
     
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      icon="crossfire-client.png"
     
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      After this, as root, run update-menus
     
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      Now all users will see the clients in their menu structure.
     
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      Uhm...  The main technicality I see here is that the crossfire-client.png
     
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      file is supplied by the crossfire-client-gtk rpm.  If you only installed
     
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      the crossfire-client rpm, the graphic would not be available, but
     
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      this does not prevent the menu item from being created.
     
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      It would also be possible to use the file name that tclug-menu rpm...
     
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      package_games_adventure.png
     
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