Re: 3rd party .desktop files

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 19:48, Glynn Foster wrote:
> 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 ;)
> 
> > Anyhow I thought they were just supposed to install them wherever
> > desktop files go. Though I think it might be sensible to support a
> > separate location for OS-supplied .desktop files vs. ISV .desktop
> > files, i.e. have the panel look in two directories, just to 
> > remove any hint of namespace issues.
> 
> Yeah, I was also thinking that perhaps we should namespace them
> according to which package they were in.

this doesn't fix duplicates, though.

jacob
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