Re: .desktop -> bugzilla

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 20:39, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> > On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 13:43, jacob berkman wrote:
> > > i'd like to propose the addition of 2 fields to our .desktop files:
> > > 
> > >     X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product
> > >     X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component
> > > 
> > > this would allow bug-buddy to just display a list of apps to the user,
> > > rather than the 2-tiered (and more confusing) approach it does now.
> > > 
> > > also, this would allow a nice appname -> component map for guessing the
> > > component for crashes.
> > 
> > ok, i (finally) have support in bug-buddy HEAD for this.
> >
> 
> How do you map program name -> desktop file?

well bug-buddy knows the app, and can look at the command in the
.desktop file.

all it'll do is select the one it thinks is right - the user will get a
list of apps
(http://primates.ximian.com/~jacob/gnome2/bug-buddy-applications.png)
instead of products (although they can switch between application and
product view).

jacob
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