Desktop Integration of the Staden Package in KDE on Suse Linux 9

Sat, 19 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I have installed the Staden package on my laptop. In order to convince other people from my lab to use it, it must be very easy to use. Ideally, they should just need to select some sequences, click and the preprocessing and assembly should be done automatically. In order to achieve that I did the following:

Desktop Integration of Staden into KDE 3.2

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Two things have to be accomplished: 1. The menu should contain appropriate entries. 2. The files should be clickable and have appropriate “Open with” entries. 1. is easy to do. The (systemwide) entries for the menu are in /opt/kde3/share/applnk. I just added an addiitonal directory structure under this directory:Science – Staden |– Gap4.desktop |– Pregap4.desktop |– Spin.desktop |– Stadenlaunch.desktop -- Trev.desktop If you edit the menu as a regular user, the entries are only valid for yourself. Additionally Suse messes between two locations for user-defined menu entries: ~/.kde/share/applnk and ~/.local/share/applications. Once you have the entries in the systemwide /opt/kde3/share/applnk additonal changes made by individual users will replicate the directory under the users home directory. Because entries in the users home directory take precedence over systemwide entries, these will be valid then.

Desktop Integration on Michael’s Domain

Desktop Integration of the Staden Package in KDE on Suse Linux 9

Desktop Integration of Staden into KDE 3.2