selfmade hpkg does not install link to non-package menu folder

[lelldorin]

I create a hpkg with my HPKGCreartor. Into the files for the package i add a link for the menu into non-packaged/data/deskbar/menu/Applications/TutorialFinder. The HPKG does create without any problems and now HaikuDepot open it, then i double click it. Now installing is without problems too, but the link to them menu does not installed, only the apps folder with my program file.

Then i create link using ln into this folder it creates a link into them Applications menu.

[lelldorin]

package created with HPKHCreator

[humdinger]

I think that the non-packaged folder is "untouchable" when installing a hpkg is by design. I don't know the internals enough, but I think the ticket is invalid.

You should've put the link into "data/deskbar/menu/Applications/".

[stippi]

Exactly. The non-packaged folder, as its name implies, contains only stuff that is non-packaged, i.e. "not from any package". So packages cannot make stuff appear inside those folders, since then that stuff would be "from a package".

[lelldorin]

this is correct. my first try are to use data/deskbar/menu/Applicatiobs but it is read only

[stippi]

I think you might have a misunderstanding here. I was not aware of the existence of "HPKGCreator" and I have never used it. When I created packages, I created an folder structure anywhere in the writable file system (for example in /boot/home/packages/my_package_contents) which matched the folder hierarchy of the system folder (only the folders I need). For example, I might have a folder "/boot/home/packages/my_package_contents/data/deskbar/menu/Applications/" and in that folder I might have a relative link to my application. Then I use the package command line tool to create a package with those exact contents, only that they will later be merged with the actual system folders.

[pulkomandy]

Also, it is useful to know that Deskbar uses "virtual folders" to create the complete menu, so the menu is not a single folder anymore. It is instead a merge of several different folders, including the packaged and non-packaged variants.

The result of this is:

• entries from packages goes in the packaged data/deskbar/menu/Applications/
• entries from outside of packages goes in non-packaged/data/deskbar/menu/Applications/
• Deskbar will show entries from both directories

[lelldorin]

Ok thank you i get it: ln -rs /path/to/app/programname /path/to/data/deskbar/menu/Applications/programname