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-rw-r--r--config/grc_grc.m43
-rw-r--r--grc/Makefile.am7
-rw-r--r--grc/freedesktop/README20
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/config/grc_grc.m4 b/config/grc_grc.m4
index f02923f16..b5ae52cee 100644
--- a/config/grc_grc.m4
+++ b/config/grc_grc.m4
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([GRC_GRC],[
GRC_CHECK_DEPENDENCY(grc, gr-wxgui)
- AC_CHECK_PROG(XDG_UTILS,xdg-mime,freedesktop,)
+ AC_CHECK_PROG(XDG_UTILS, xdg-mime, true, false)
+ AM_CONDITIONAL(XDG_UTILS, $XDG_UTILS)
dnl ########################################
dnl # test python dependencies
diff --git a/grc/Makefile.am b/grc/Makefile.am
index 8b77fc31a..7f62f39b6 100644
--- a/grc/Makefile.am
+++ b/grc/Makefile.am
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@
include $(top_srcdir)/grc/Makefile.inc
-SUBDIRS = $(XDG_UTILS) \
+SUBDIRS = \
data \
examples \
scripts \
src
+
+## append freedesktop to the list of subdirs when xdg utils are present
+if XDG_UTILS
+SUBDIRS += freedesktop
+endif
diff --git a/grc/freedesktop/README b/grc/freedesktop/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0857ecc22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/grc/freedesktop/README
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+##################################################
+# Freedesktop Notes
+##################################################
+
+This directory contains icons, a mime type, and menu files for grc.
+Installation of these files requires a set of tools called xdg-utils.
+xdg-utils will install files in a standard way according to the freedesktop.org standards.
+
+Desktop enviroments that implement these standards are gnome, kde, xfce, and others.
+If you have one of these desktop enviroments, xdg-utils should come installed.
+If xdg-utils is not installed, then this directory will be ignored by the build.
+
+The gtk IconTheme module locates the installed icons for use inside the grc app.
+On recent versions of gtk, IconTheme ignores the icons installed into the default theme.
+This presents a problem for the gnome file system browser, nautilus, and the grc app.
+As a solution, icons are also installed under the gnome theme.
+
+*.png files - these are the icons of various sizes
+*.desktop files - these are the menu items for grc executables
+*.xml file - this is the mime type for the saved flow graphs