11:49 a.m.
For some reason that confuses me a bit. The first line after the
example says "we're going to talk about --vendor in the context of the
menu spec", then the first item says not to use --vendor at all and
the second item talks about KDE and --dir.
Plus, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to know if the upstream provides
vendor_id.
How about three examples:
Proposed desktop-file-install examples:
If upstream provides a desktop file, does it include "Vendor:" (or
however I'm supposed to know that it specifies vendor_id:)? If so,
use this:
[[ blah ]]
KDE applications not falling into the above category should use the
following:
(or put this first if KDE-ness overrides the other options)
[[ blah ]]
Otherwise, use the following:
[[ blah ]]
11:52 a.m.
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
For some reason that confuses me a bit. The first line after the
example says "we're going to talk about --vendor in the context of the
menu spec", then the first item says not to use --vendor at all and
the second item talks about KDE and --dir.
In the context of --vendor, using a subdir is (relatively) equivalent.
Plus, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to know if the upstream
provides
vendor_id.
If the .desktop filenames are either of the form:
vendor/foo.desktop
or
vendor-foo.desktop
then upstream is providing them.
Does that help?
-- Rex
12:15 p.m.
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
For some reason that confuses me a bit. The first line after the
example says "we're going to talk about --vendor in the context of the
menu spec", then the first item says not to use --vendor at all and
the second item talks about KDE and --dir.
Plus, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to know if the upstream provides
vendor_id.
OK, I updated the draft to include 2 examples, one
using --vendor=<vendor_id> the other using
--dir=%buildroot%_datadir/applications/<vendor_id> --vendor=""
and included language from the spec describing the difference (hopefully):
-------------------
To prevent that a desktop entry from one party inadvertently cancels out the
desktop entry from another party because both happen to get the same
desktop-file id it is recommended that providers of desktop-files ensure
that all desktop-file ids start with a vendor prefix... Please namespace
the filename, as in "vendor-foo.desktop", or use a subdirectory of
datadir/applications/ so you have "vendor/foo.desktop"...
-----------------
-- Rex
12:34 p.m.
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 17:51, Rex Dieter wrote:
It's not about desktop-file-install but about the desktop-file itself:
I propose to provide some guidelines about the contents of a desktop-file,
e.g. that they should not contain paths in the Exec entry and should provide
a StartupWMClass entry. Another issue is, which / how many Categories should
be added, every categores that fits like for
example "Application;AudioVideo;Audio;Midi;Music;" for an midi application
that generates midis or only some of them?
Regards,
Till
12:43 p.m.
Till Maas wrote:
It's not about desktop-file-install
Well, *this* proposal is limited in scope only to the use of
desktop-file-install.
>but about the desktop-file itself:
I propose to provide some guidelines about the contents of a desktop-file,
e.g. that they should not contain paths in the Exec entry and should
provide a StartupWMClass entry. Another issue is, which / how many
Categories should be added, every categores that fits like for
example "Application;AudioVideo;Audio;Midi;Music;" for an midi application
that generates midis or only some of them?
Agreed, some extra guidelines should be written to cover these topics as
well. Are you volunteering? (:
-- Rex
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