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Re: Desktop file for Zenmap?
From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:17:53 -0500
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Fyodor <> wrote:
I noticed a patch on the Debian bug tracker which provides .desktop files for Zenmap. It includes one for normal execution, and one which runs Zenmap as root (though it uses some sort of su-to-root command which may be Debian specific). You can find the bug report and the followup patch here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457799 So the questions are: o Does anyone know how what OS distributions are likely to benefit from these .desktop files? Do the vast majority of current Linux distributions support them? Is the main benefit to having such files that Zenmap would appear on the Application menu, and maybe as a desktop icon? o Should the Nmap installer include a Zenmap .desktop file on UNIX systems? o If so, what should we do about running as root? Make two icons, as in this example? o What do people think of the .desktop files That David posted in the bug tracker? Any changes we should make? Cheers, Fyodor
I'm pretty sure that GNOME uses .desktop files regardless of what flavor of *nix it is on. I know I also had them when I was running IceWM but I was using GNOME pieces with it. I can't be sure if they were part of IceWM or part of the GNOME bits being used in IceWM. -Jason _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- Desktop file for Zenmap? Fyodor (Jun 13)
- Re: Desktop file for Zenmap? DePriest, Jason R. (Jun 13)
- RE: Desktop file for Zenmap? Thomas Buchanan (Jun 14)