Bug 143725

Summary:	LiveCD request: desktop icons, add 1, change 1
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Xavier Neys (RETIRED) <neysx>
Component:	Catalyst	Assignee:	Gentoo Catalyst Developers <catalyst>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	docs-team, releng
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-12 15:47:46 UTC

1. We've just mentioned in the 2006.1 draft that users could use firefox to browse an html handbook on the CD.
Could an icon that links to it be added on the desktop?

2. The GLI FAQ icon on the desktop links to http://www.g.o/...
Looks a bit daft for a CD that's supposed to work networkless.
Could the FAQ be copied on the CD?

Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-23 09:58:34 UTC

Well, this requires changes in catalyst, so it could get done in time for the release.  We'll do this next release, though.

Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-23 10:00:12 UTC

s/could/couldn't/ :)

Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-22 08:33:15 UTC

Andrew, is the FAQ necessary to be linked still?

Comment 4 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-22 08:45:12 UTC

As opposed to just copying it to the CD? I don't recall there ever being a good reason for linking instead of copying.

Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-22 08:49:18 UTC

Actually, I meant is it necessary, at all.  I've been just copying the .desktop created by the gli ebuild itself.  I was wondering if it is still necessary.  If it is, then I need to generate a new .desktop file, rather than using the old one, since I'll have to point it to a new location.

Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-20 08:01:25 UTC

OK.  I've added this into SVN for catalyst.  Once I make a new catalyst release with this updated, I'll reassign this to release for 2007.0's release.

In case you're wondering, I've dropped the FAQ icon, since it was only really there to tell people how to perform an update of the installer, and I've added the link to the local Handbook.  The link will not work if someone uses "docache" and unmounts the CD, but I'm not really that concerned with that particular corner case, since other things don't work (like networkless on the installer that expects the portage snapshot is at /mnt/cdrom/snapshots)...

Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-06 22:53:36 UTC

Fixed in 2.0.2