Re: 3rd party .desktop files

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 00:47, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com> writes:
> > On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 00:29, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > 
> > > You could make a "desktop file authoring tool" but don't you think
> > > it's overkill for a 10-line Key=value file?
> > 
> > Not if there's no man page for the format ;)
> >
> 
> It's fully documented: http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec.html

Right, I had kinda forgotten about this. What are the chances of adding
in the Category field to this spec? Or should we be using X-Category
instead? The Category field is just used in the vfolder gnome-vfs module
for sorting out the menu entries. It's not as if the KDE guys ever
replied to that thread IIRC :(

> I'm very much in favor of it anyway.

Okay, anyone *not* in favour of this change shout out now! I'll remove
them at the end of next week if no one complains.


				See ya,
					Glynn ;)