Re: Suggestion for minor interoperability advance

[Andreas Jellinghaus <aj dungeon inka de>]

one small suggestion: the desktop files are already compatible.

but missing is this (or is it undocumented ?):
the location of the various desktop files and
their pixmap files are at best compile time defined.
this should be configureable at runtime, best via a
config file in /etc (so the admin can configure it once
for all users).

for example i compiled kde to /opt/kde-1.91 (and the
previous version to /opt/kde-1.90). i managed to get both
trees, and our own local tree to both desktop environments
with symlinks, but the pixmap paths didnīt survive that.
(no, i will not add a symlink for every pixmap, thatīs insane.)

also, gnome has .order files, where i pre-set the order.
thatīs nice, so i can put the university menu at the top.
iīm not sure if kde knows about that.

(not sure: IIRC the order does not work, once LANG is set ?)

regards, andreas