Originally Posted by deny_winarto

I understand that to create a desktop shortcut of gnumeric i have to put gnumeric.desktop file

In here :
/home/user/.local/share/applications/hildon
Question is, i can't find the folder on Mass Storage mode, is it hidden or something?
Also where do i put the icon image files? I assume it's not available yet in the debian?

Originally Posted by rebhana

Through USB you can only access /home/user/MyDocs, so you would then have to move the file from XTerminal into this folder. (I myself use ssh for all transfers which doesn't have any limitations.)

Icon images can either be placed in the standard Maemo location, for example /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/ or likewise in the analogous directory in /home/user/.local. Since those directories won't exist, create them at the first such installation by

Code:

mkdir -p /home/user/.local/share/applications/hildon
mkdir -p /home/user/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/

Your .desktop file goes into the first folder, and some appropriate icon file (.png) in the second. If you don't find any png file in the Debian package, you can of course reuse or edit existing ones.

You will have to reboot in order to see your new app icon appear in the application manager.

Originally Posted by qole

installed it without much pain by enabling the squeeze and sid repos in /etc/apt/sources.list then, as root in Debian:

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get install --no-install-recommends openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-calc

Doesn't seem faster, and the menus changed from icons to text, but it works fine...

Originally Posted by deny_winarto

Thanks, but could you explain to me step by step?
So if i move the gnumeric.desktop file onto "N900" folder
What should i type in X-terminal to remove them to hildon folder?
I tried to use this code in X-terminal but it does nothing

Code:

mkdir -p /home/user/.local/share/applications/hildon
mkdir -p /home/user/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/

Originally Posted by rebhana

These two commands create the folders where your files should then be moved into. If you have transferred your gnumeric.desktop file by USB, it will be in /home/user/MyDocs. To move it in XTerminal, you can then do (the following is one line):

Code:

mv /home/user/MyDocs/gnumeric.desktop /home/user/.local/share/applications/hildon/

Similarly, if you have found a nice icon that would have to go into the second directory.

Originally Posted by qole

deny_winarto:

That "cannot preserve ownership" message happens when you copy something TO /home/user/MyDocs, not from there. Rebhana told you to copy it from MyDocs to the new folders.

You won't see the new folders on your PC. You have to copy them to your MyDocs folder from the PC, then move them from the MyDocs folder to your home folder on the N900; that's why rebhana told you to move them with the mv command.

Make sure you are doing exactly what rebhana instructed you to do.

Originally Posted by rebhana

I guess deny_winarto did exactly what I told him, and everything should actually be in place. I checked that you indeed get the "cannot preserve ownership" message when you move from /home/user/MyDocs, however it is only a warning - it does correctly move the file despite the "operation not permitted" (that refers only to the fact that the ownership is modified). If you copy (cp) instead of move (mv), you don't get the warning, but either should be fine. It should now work for you, deny_winarto, doesn't it?