Re: Namespacing desktop files

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 18:42, Sander Vesik wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Rodrigo,
> > 
> > On 7 Dec 2001, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 15:15, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > > > The potential problems without this namespacing would be if 3rd party
> > > > ISV's wanted to install a .desktop file without the fear of
> > > > overwriting another .desktop file.
> > >
> > > seems a nice idea. If we're already doing this for IDL, .server,
> > > files, it makes sense to also do it for .desktop files
> > 
> >         Sure - we have a namespacing mechanism and convention working
> > nicely in bonobo - I need to pull bonobo/doc/NAMESPACE forward into
> > libbonobo and make that the canonical version;
> > 
> >         How does that sound; it falls back to Com_Sun_YourOwnStuffHere,
> > IIRC.
> 
> Urk, underscores in the filename - lets make it dashes (-) instead.
> 
the rest of the namespaced files use underscores :-)

Bonobo_Sample_Echo.server
GNOME_Database_Provider_MySQL.server
Bonobo_Unknown.idl

cheers
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> - <rodrigo ximian com>
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