RE: "proprietary" vs. polluting (was Re: propriatary question)

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

I am hoping in the future to have KDE read desktop files (they are like the
same as .kde so it wouldnt be hard) ... then gnome, enlightenment, kde and
whatever can read the same files in the same place. A standard if you
will....

/usr/share/apps

to say that a .desktop file is a gnome file is not true...
enlightenment != gnome but enlightenment can read .desktop files as well....

if you want every program to produce .desktop files, you should have to
produce them only once.
Programmers have a hard enough time producing 1 desktop file, let alone .kde
files, and what have you... 1 file is all that is nessisary.

"being polite and clean" in this case means to have kde files, gnome files,
enlightenment files, afterstep files, window maker files, black box files
........ you see where I am going.... Sharing this information between all
programs saves everyone alot of work :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jrb@redhat.com [SMTP:jrb@redhat.com]
> Sent:	Friday, April 02, 1999 12:47 PM
> To:	Brandon S. Allbery
> Subject:	Re: "proprietary" vs. polluting (was Re: propriatary
> question) 
> 
> > (Although it's probably gone anyway, since it appears that parts of it
> now
> > require egcs and we have no intention of supporting egcs across all our
> > platforms in the near future.  This isn't open to debate, nor to the
> > occasional idiot who flames me because I don't have 72-hour days in
> which to
> > keep every single thing GNOME touches at the most absolutely recent
> > pre-pre-alpha version so GNOME will compile.  But that's another issue
> or
> > five.)
> 
> Nothing in GNOME requires egcs (or gcc, for that matter)  If something
> does,
> it's a bug.  Some RPM's are built with egcs, which is a different matter,
> altogether.  In this case, if worst comes to worse, you can just rebuild
> the 
> source RPMS if need be.
> 
> Also, the menu heirarchies were moved from ${PREFIX}/share/apps to 
> ${PREFIX}/share/gnome/apps to prevent conflict with KDE.  It's a matter of
> being polite and clean, not proprietary.
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
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