Re: Possible typo in gnome2-system-admin-guide
- From: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
- To: Simos <simos lists googlemail com>
- Cc: Greek GNOME List <team gnome gr>, gnome-doc-list <gnome-doc-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Possible typo in gnome2-system-admin-guide
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:49:08 -0500
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 16:50 +0100, Simos wrote:
> Hi,
> During the translation of gnome2-system-admin-guide, a member of the Greek team
> noticed that in
>
> <para>Desktop entry files must reside in the
> <filename>$XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications</filename> directory and must have a
> <filename>.desktop</filename> file extension. If
> <envar>$XDG_DATA_DIRS</envar><footnote>
> <para>$XDG_DATA_DIRS is the environment variable defined in the <ulink
> url="http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec">XDG base
> directory specification</ulink>.</para>
> </footnote> is not set, then the default path is
> <filename>/usr/share</filename> is used. This also implies that user
> specific desktop entries may be located at
> <filename>$XDG_DATA_HOME/applications</filename> which is
> searched first. If <envar>$XDG_DATA_HOME</envar> is not set, then the
> default path <filename>~/.local/share</filename> is used. Desktop entries
> are collected from all directories in the <envar>$XDG_DATA_DIRS</envar>
> environment variable. Directories which appear first in
> <envar>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</envar> are given precedence when there are
> several <filename>.desktop</filename> files with the same name.</para>
>
> the '$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS' near the end of the paragraph should be
> '$XDG_DATA_DIRS instead.
> It appears this is a copy-paste error while writing the documentation.
> Could you please verify? If so, I can bugzilla this.
Yeah, the definitely looks wrong. Can you file
a bug please?
--
Shaun
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