Hello Luggers,
I am developing a cross platform installer in java. I need to create desktop shortcuts and start menu item on Unix/Linux. I am considering KDE, GNOME, Openwin and CDE as target GUI for Unix/Linux systems. I am a newbie for GUI programming on Unix/Linux. Can anybody help me to accomplish this? I am ready for using any native code if required.
It will be great if I can get insight with respect to nature and structure of shortcut (link) files. Is there any readymade library (docs) of APIs like we have MSDN for windows?
-Kshitij
kshitijv e-mail: kshitijv@forindia.com
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:07:01 +0530 "kshitijv" kshitijv@forindia.com wrote:
Hello Luggers,
[snip]
Hello Kshitijv,
a newbie for GUI programming on Unix/Linux. Can anybody help me to accomplish this? I am ready for using any native code if required.
[snip]
You won't need any native code to create shortcuts on KDE/Gnome desktops.
It will be great if I can get insight with respect to nature and structure of shortcut (link) files. Is there any readymade library (docs) of APIs like we have MSDN for windows?
[snip]
You can check out the respective projects pages where you will find tons of documentation of the same.
I suggest you install KDE and Gnome and then go through the directories it creates for all system users in their home directories. This will tell you where to just create those shortcuts.
This is rocket science pal...Just try out what i just said.
Bye for now.
Trevor
-Kshitij
kshitijv e-mail: kshitijv@forindia.com
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Trevor Warren wrote:
This is rocket science pal...Just try out what i just said.
I think you meant `this is *not* rocket science'
Quoting Philip S Tellis philip@konark.ncst.ernet.in:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Trevor Warren wrote:
This is rocket science pal...Just try out what i just said.
I think you meant `this is *not* rocket science'
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ooopsy....:)
Yes i meant "not". Apologies.
Trevor
Micro Battles <<
While Mr Gates was still in India, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh announced that all of MP government's schemes would use Linux software. In Mr Singh's words, it was not a question of Microsoft versus Linux but of choosing between free software and a monopoly. Others have pointed out that basic PC
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=289...
Bye for now.
Trevor
Quoting Trevor Warren trevor.w@media.mit.edu:
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:07:01 +0530 "kshitijv" kshitijv@forindia.com wrote:
Hello Luggers,
[snip]
Hello Kshitijv,
a newbie for GUI programming on Unix/Linux. Can anybody help me to accomplish this? I am ready for using any native code if required.
[snip]
You won't need any native code to create shortcuts on KDE/Gnome desktops.
It will be great if I can get insight with respect to nature and structure of shortcut (link) files. Is there any readymade library (docs) of APIs like we have MSDN for windows?
[snip]
You can check out the respective projects pages where you will find tons of documentation of the same.
I suggest you install KDE and Gnome and then go through the directories it creates for all system users in their home directories. This will tell you where to just create those shortcuts.
This is rocket science pal...Just try out what i just said.
Bye for now.
Trevor
-Kshitij
kshitijv e-mail: kshitijv@forindia.com
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 05:25:26 -0500 trevor.w@media.mit.edu wrote:
Micro Battles <<
Er... Trevor, http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20021118/007499.htm... I'm convinced that you're indeed busy these days ;-)
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:35:01 +0530 Tahir Hashmi code_martial@softhome.net wrote:
Er... Trevor, http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20021118/007499.htm... I'm convinced that you're indeed busy these days ;-)
[snip]
:))
oopsy...:))
Trevor
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:07:01PM +0530, kshitijv wrote:
I am a newbie for GUI programming on Unix/Linux. Can anybody help me to accomplish this? I am ready for using any native code if required.
It will be great if I can get insight with respect to nature and structure of shortcut (link) files. Is there any readymade library (docs) of APIs like we have MSDN for windows?
GTK-2.0 is very library and is available for M$ Windoze also. It will better if you use gtk. Because gtk has bindings for many languages (java, perl, c, c++, etc.).
Very good documentation is available on the gtk home (http://www.gtk.org/).
regards
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
GTK-2.0 is very library and is available for M$ Windoze also. It will better if you use gtk. Because gtk has bindings for many languages (java, perl, c, c++, etc.).
gtk will require some windowing system. that means the installer program will not be able to run via console mode (it can still be a GUI). We all know that good sysadmins use console programs for admin stuff. <gd&r>
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