Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (91 mails)

[Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>]

On Apr 27, 10 11:03:26 +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > Well, I have installed "serna-free-4.2-4.2.0-20091009.i686.rpm". It 
> > hasn't put any icon I can click to start it, there is nothing in /bin
> > or /usr/bin, so I don't even know how to start it.
>
> One way to view the files an RPM is installing is using the -ql option
> of rpm, that is
>
>   rpm -ql serna-free | grep /bin/

Which is helpful for the technically inclined, but not for the end user.

For a perfect user experience (in an ideal world), installing a package 
foo should make 'something' of the name foo appear in the system. 
This something could be 
 - a desktop icon, 
 - a menu entry, 
 - something the desktop search can find, or 
 - (at least!) a command on the command line.

Just my humble opinion, ignoring any feasability.

I checked out serna yesterday to see, if a desktop file could be easily
added. Just to find out, that serna does not even compile on 11.2 and up.

cheers,
        JW-

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