← Back to team overview

zim-wiki team mailing list archive

Re: How to create a compare_files helper (pointer to meld)

 

The right folder should be "~/.local/share/zim/helpers"

Mental note: add this more clearly in the documentation

Regards,

Jaap


On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 4:54 AM Hal Morris <hal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> I just signed up to the list and am just learning Zim, which I want to use
> with hg/mercurial version control on Fedora and Ubuntu Linux.  I currently
> have it on a very downlevel Fedora system.
>
> In the version dialog box, "side by side" comparison isn't enabled.
>
> Based on the documentation and google searches,
>
>          ~/.local/share/zim-desktop-wiki/helpers/compare_files/meld.desktop
>
>          ~/.local/share/helpers/compare_files/meld.desktop
>
> I tried, in each of the preceding pathnames, creating a file as follows:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Meld
> Exec=meld %F
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> Icon=meld
> MimeType=application/x-meld-comparison;
> StartupNotify=true
> Categories=GTK;Development;
>
> Neither seemed to fix the problem.
>
> I'm not really familiar with files of this type, so it's hard to say what
> I may have gotten wrong.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki
> Post to     : zim-wiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>

References