macOS xdg-desktop-icon

[Laurent Bourgès]

Hi Jim,
I published an updated IcedTeaWeb 1.7 release:
http://jmmc.fr/~bourgesl/share/itw/

ONLY FOR DEV / TESTS, NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE.

This build have customized linux shell launchers (+ windows bat): it is
still a work in progress.

Le jeu. 25 oct. 2018 à 10:43, Laurent Bourgès <bourges.laurent at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hi Jim,
>
> With Oracle inexplicably ditching javaws in Java 11, and ending public
>> updates of Java 8 in January, end users are desperately looking for a
>> replacement…and IcedTea-Web is really the only viable option. In my testing
>> here, it basically works; it reliably launches our customers’ existing
>> JNLPs, giving them a path forward. But now that we’ve established that it
>> basically works, our customer testers are focused on fine-grained
>> deployment details, and they care a lot about those desktop icons.
>>
>
> Thanks for your feedback
>
>
>> I spent days trying to build
>> <https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web> IcedTea-Web
>> in macOS, but I had to eventually give up; I couldn’t get past the errors.
>> I’ve been doing Windows & Mac testing with a build that Laurent Bourgès
>> kindly provided
>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2018-September/040118.html> to
>> me.
>>
>
> I can publish nightly itw builds either on my own server or on a github
> mirror.
>

Here it is.


> Since I have no ability to edit and build IcedTea-Web, I had to take a
>> different approach; I put together the attached Mac-specific dropin
>> replacement for the xdg-desktop-icon script, which works reasonably well in
>> my testing here; it parses the .desktop file and generates a minimal macOS
>> AppBundle corresponding to the JNLP parameters. I hope someone will find it
>> useful, or even use it as the basis for integrating macOS desktop
>> integration directly into IcedTea-Web.
>>
>
> Excellent, I will try your script when I will have some spare time...
>
>
>> Now I’m back to the Windows 10 system, which is also not creating the
>> desktop icon. First, I always get this flood of permissions errors
>> launching any JNLP; I have no idea what this is trying to tell me:
>>
>> Removing execute permissions on file
>> C:\Users\Jim\.cache\icedtea-web\cache\4369\http\10.0.1.5\8888\basis\10.0.1.5-launchdock-launch.jar.info.temp
>> failed
>>
>
> I would like you trying latest 1.7 release, to see if that problem is
> already fixed.
>

Could you try soon ?

Cheers,
Laurent
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