Getting HiRISE to work; JavaWS app

FYI mars fan:

http://hirise.lpl.arizo
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but, I was having problems getting it to work.

I find that KDE ships with a 'desktop' file for 'javaws' in
KAppFinder:

$KDEDIR/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Internet/javaws.desktop

however this presumes that the: "javaws"
executable is in your PATH.  If 
you installed Sun Java yourself, this probably will not be
the case.

The fix is simple, change the 'Exec' line to:

	Exec="$JAVA_HOME/javaws/javaws"

{if you haven't set JAVA_HOME in your environment, use the
actual path}

and copy the file to:

	$KDEDIR/share/applnk/.hidden/javaws.desktop

Be sure to set the ownership to root/root and the
permissions to 664.

-- 
JRT



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On Thursday 12 July 2007, James Richard Tyrer wrote:

> and copy the file to:
>
> 	$KDEDIR/share/applnk/.hidden/javaws.desktop

Application start menu files should not be copied into
"applnk" locations, 
since this is a legacy KDE location and will probably be
dropped in the 
future.

Correct locations for any desktop environment following the
menu and 
desktop-entry specs is one these paths:
% kde-config --path xdgdata-app

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2007, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>> and copy the file to:
>>
>> 	$KDEDIR/share/applnk/.hidden/javaws.desktop
> 
> Application start menu files should not be copied into
"applnk" locations, 
> since this is a legacy KDE location and will probably
be dropped in the 
> future.

Yes, copying the file to that location is deprecated. 
However, if 
KAppFinder succeeds in finding "javaws", the file
will be copied to:

	$KDEDIR/share/applnk/Internet/

Which is also where you can copy it if you want it visible
on the Menu. 
  In which case, you will probably want to add an icon to
the file:

	Icon=java

If you want to do this the new way and copy the file to the
new style 
location:

	$XDG_DATA_DIR/applications/

{There is no: XDG_DATA_DIR so choose one in the path in:
XDG_DATA_DIRS 
or use "kde-config as KK suggested}

You are going to need to modify the file by adding
Categories and/or 
Hidden=yes.

> Correct locations for any desktop environment following
the menu and 
> desktop-entry specs is one these paths:
> % kde-config --path xdgdata-app

No doubt about that, but some KDE3 apps, including
KAppFinder, are still 
doing it the old (wrong -- deprecated) way.

So, although this probably won't work with KDE-4, it is the
easiest way 
to get this working in KDE-3.5.  But, it is a good idea to
point out 
that it is a bit of a kludge.

-- 
JRT
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