[SailfishDevel] Error installing .desktop file

Thomas Tanghus thomas at tanghus.net
Tue Aug 20 09:11:57 UTC 2019



"Martin Kampas" <martin.kampas at jolla.com> – 20. august 2019 11:00
> The .desktop file must exist in the same directory where the .pro file that
> uses CONFIG+=sailfishapp exists.
 
It is. 
 
> Note that the subdirs template does not require you actually put stuff to
> subdirectories - you can specify a .pro file that exists in the same directory
> instead of a subdirectory
> https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmake-variable-reference.html#subdirs. This way you
> should be able to keep the standard layout with .desktop and other files in
> the root directory and yet use the subdirs template to split the build.

Excellent! That I didn't know. I'll try and see if it makes a difference.


 /Thomas
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