Re: backwards compatible .desktop files

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 16:00, George wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:31:39PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > some applications are starting to install .desktop files in
> > > $(datadir)/applications, where the 1.4 panel will not find them.
> > > 
> > > is there any reason not to install into both places?
> > 
> > IMO that makes a lot of sense.
> 
> In any case, another issue is translations.  We now really want things in
> UTF-8 (else it slows down some stuff by forcing us to convert to utf8).  Also
> I assume all translations are done in utf-8 in gnome2, so anything using
> intltool will also have the .desktop files in utf8, and this just won't work
> for 1.4 panel.

i thought a newer gnome-libs could handle UTF-8?

jacob
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