Summary: | Gentoo needs a concensus on how to deal with .desktop files | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Markus Bertheau (RETIRED) <ska-fan> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo KDE team <kde> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | azarah, bart, gnome, spider, vaino.jarvela |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://www.freedesktop.org | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Markus Bertheau (RETIRED)
2002-07-11 16:56:26 UTC
I thought I'd get all the Gnome2/KDE3 people on this one :) Hmm... Interesting thing to do one day. Right now kde vs. gnome and kde vs. redhat etc. seem to be fighting over who implements what standard and what distribution uses what default, so we may want to see if there's anyone we like enough to emulate, and any standards we care to follow. note: there is a program kappfinder, from kdebase, which finds programs and add them to the menu, maybe we can take a look how it do this. I think it just matches binaries with known names from your PATH to .desktop files it comes with... It would be nice if there was do* command for creating .desktop files for programs that don't have one in the package. I can't think any "nice" system for this at the moment. Maybe just put one in FILESDIR and do* just copies it to the right place. But the way should be standardized in Portage so there won't be a+1 scripts doing the same thing inside ebuilds and a+1 headache fixing/changing them. I believe it would be time that a generalized gentoo menu system got implemented. Some people have stated that they were looking into this, lets see how it goes. |