.desktop files for app-in-snap

Eloy García (PC Actual) eloy.garcia.pca at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 08:13:31 UTC 2016


Hi! You can take a loot at snappy playpen github repository. There is an
application (wallpaperdownloader) that it is java-based and it has a
desktop icon working fine. This is the URL:

https://github.com/ubuntu/snappy-playpen

Best wishes!

El 8 ago. 2016 9:46 a. m., "Didier Roche" <didrocks at ubuntu.com> escribió:

>

> Le 08/08/2016 à 08:47, Vasilisc a écrit :
> > 08.08.2016 08:50, Didier Roche пишет:
> >> Le 06/08/2016 à 09:47, Vasilisc a écrit :
> >>>> Please help me. If I launch the program in the Terminal - well done,
> >>>> but
> >>>> I can't start program from Unity Launcher.
> >>>>
> >>>> I tried to change parameter Exec in
> >>>> ~/.local/share/applications/app.desktop
> >>>> Exec=app-name
> >>>> Exec=snap-name.app-name
> >>>> Exec=$SNAP/usr/bin/start-script.sh
> >>>> Exec=$snap.$app (http://snapcraft.io/docs/snaps/structure)
> >>>>
> >>>> and studied case
> >>>>
https://github.com/ubuntu/snappy-playpen/blob/master/vlc/setup/gui/vlc.desktop
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> but it didn't help.
> >>>>
> >>> suspect lines
> >>> Aug  6 10:20:35 vb gnome-session[2377]: (gnome-software:2582):
> >>> As-WARNING **: failed to rescan: Failed to parse
> >>>
/home/vasilisc/.local/share/applications/org-languagetool-gui-main.desktop
> >>>
> >>> file: cannot process file of type application/x-desktop
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Hey Vasilisc,
> >>
> >> You didn't provide your .desktop file in setup/gui/ directory. Do you
> >> mind doing this?
> >> I suspect your type is different from "Type=Application", which it
> >> should be.
> >> Didier
> >
> > I found a problem. My script-wrapper (usr/bin/run.sh) run java app
> > #!/bin/bash
> > .... bla-bla-bla ....
> > java -jar -Duser.home=$SNAP_USER_DATA $SNAP/usr/bin/languagetool.jar
> >
> > in snapcraft.yaml
> > apps:
> >   languagetool:
> >     command: usr/bin/run.sh
> >     plugs: [network, network-bind, x11, home, unity7]
> >
> >
> > If to attach the java-app to a panel Unity Launcher, then the file
> > (~/.local/shape/applications/org-languagetool-gui-main.desktop ) will
> > contain.
> >
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Encoding=UTF-8
> > Version=1.0
> > Type=Application
> > Name=LanguageTool 3.4-SNAPSHOT
> > Icon=org-languagetool-gui-main
> > Exec=java -jar -Duser.home=/home/vasilisc/snap/languagetool/x1
> > /snap/languagetool/x1/usr/bin/languagetool.jar
> >
> > In a host-system can't execute a command (it's impossible)
> > java -jar -Duser.home=/home/vasilisc/snap/languagetool/x1
> > /snap/languagetool/x1/usr/bin/languagetool.jar
> >
> > I don't know what to do.
>
> You need to ship yourself your .desktop file, as you pointed via the vlc
> desktop file inside the snapcraft source.
>
> This one will have the correct Exec= after building it with snapcraft
> rather then one generated from unity.
>
>
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