is there a "developer resources" page for third party developers?

[George Deka]

I would suggest the debian packaging guide as a start.

but essentially to get into the menu you need to supply a .desktop file.


On 20/11/05, John Steele Scott <toojays at toojays.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been using Ubuntu at my work for a year or so now and am quite
> happy with it. I do some software development, and was able to ensure
> that our latest software program runs on both Ubuntu and Windows. I
> learnt enough about Debian packaging to be able to get my program
> packaged into a deb, and it was enough for me to install my deb and
> create an icon by hand to sit in my GNOME panel.
>
> However, my boss has been saying that he wants to try out this Ubuntu OS
> which I'm always using. So my deb package needs a bit of polish, mainly
> just to get into the GNOME menu. I want to do this the Right Way, so if
> we ever have customers using Ubuntu, we can give them the same package.
>
> Is there a guide for non-Ubuntu developers who want to make packages
> which integrate into the Ubuntu desktop? I found
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperResources>, but that looks like it is
> targeted at Ubuntu developers. Also, I would like to know the correct
> way to integrate into the desktop. Something like Sun's
> <http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/integrating_gnome.html>
> would be a good start.
>
> cheers,
>
> John
>
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