Dear Dirk and Petro,
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:e...@debian.org] > Sent: March-07-09 9:41 AM > To: Pietro Battiston; 518...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: John Fox > Subject: Re: Bug#518596: R Commander missing in applications menu > > > Pietro, > > Thanks for the bug report. > > On 7 March 2009 at 12:24, Pietro Battiston wrote: > | R Commander is used as a graphical interface to R, which means a > | graphical application, and as such should be listed somewhere in the > | Applications menu. > | > | This can be obtained by just adding to the package the following two > | files: > | > | /usr/bin/rcmdr : > | > | ------------------- 8< ------------------------- > | #!/bin/sh > | R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES="$R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES Rcmdr" R > | > | ------------------- 8< ------------------------- > > Can you provide a manual page too, please, as every program in /usr/bin needs > one under Debian Policy. > > Alternatively, we plave the 'rcmdr' script in /usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcmdr > which may be a better location anyway, and adapt the desktop file: > > | /usr/share/applications/rcmdr.desktop : > | > | ------------------- 8< ------------------------- > | [Desktop Entry] > | Categories=Education;Science;Math; > | Comment=Graphical interface to the R environment for statistical > | computing > | Comment[fr]=Environnement graphique pour le logiciel de calcul > | statistique R > | Comment[it]=Interfaccia grafica per l'ambiente di calcolo statistico R > | Exec=/usr/bin/rcmdr > | Icon=/usr/share/R/doc/html/logo.jpg > | Name=R Commander > | Terminal=true > | Type=Application > | X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false > | > | ------------------- 8< ------------------------- > | > | > | Please notice that: > | - I would have preferred to not put R Commander under "Education", since > | this is quite reductive. However, I'm afraid this is inevitable (see for > | instance [0]). > > I don't follow, and I don't see why a gnome.org bugreport is relevant. Debian > has its own hierarchies. For R, I use an (older-style) menu file with > > section="Applications/Science/Data Analysis" > > Aren't the menu and desktop entries derived the same way? > > | - I'm filing the bug here, I frankly ignore if upstream is interested in > | this kind of desktop issues; the maintainer has probably better > | knowledge than me. Anyway, the patch has almost no maintenance cost, > | since it doesn't touch upstream code. > > That's a pretty narrow view. The desktop file is not distro-specific, so it > should go upstream. One problem is that Rcmdr, via its R CMD INSTALL > mechanism, has no means of reaching /usr/share/applications/ > > CCing John upstream. Was there something you wanted from me here? > > | - the rcmdr miniscript is itself quite useful (I do use it often); it > | would also be possible for upstream to adopt only that, and then the > | ".desktop" could be added as a Debian patch, don't know. > > Same problem. An R package cannot 'reach' /usr/bin. > > | - the only thing I don't like in this setup is that menu item uses (jpg) > | R icon, not R Commander's one... that I was unable to find (though it > | appears in the interface, so I imagine is dinamicly generated). > | Eventually, it could be "staticized" and added too > | as /usr/share/pixmaps/rcmdr.svg; then the line of the .desktop file > | could be changed from > | Icon=/usr/share/R/doc/html/logo.jpg > | to > | Icon=rcmdr.svg > | . > > Maybe John can help us here? The logo is in the file Rcmdr.xbm in the package's etc directory. I've attached a copy. I hope this helps, John > > Dirk > > | > | Pietro > | > | [0]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331142 > | > | [GNUPG:] ERRSIG 71956D47CD9B9806 17 2 00 1236425052 9 > | [GNUPG:] NO_PUBKEY 71956D47CD9B9806 > > -- > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
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