Re: Weekly Report - Evolution Account Management

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le jeudi 05 juin 2008, à 00:50 +0200, Tobias Mueller a écrit :
> Salut!
> 
> On 05.06.2008 00:42 Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le jeudi 05 juin 2008, à 00:34 +0200, Tobias Mueller a écrit :
> >> But I can't make my application appear in gnome-control-center without 
> >> copying the .desktop file to /usr/share/applications/.
> >> I've tried to set XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME and even XDG_DATA_DIRS 
> >> and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to a directory which contains the .desktop file, but 
> >> it doesn't work. Does anybody have a hint?
> > 
> > Just put the desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications
> That works :) Thank you Vincent. Is there any documentation on this 
> (besides the code ;-) ) I missed?

http://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

> And shouldn't it work with the $XDG_DATA_HOME variable?

If you set XDG_DATA_HOME, then it will look in
$XDG_DATA_HOME/applications.

Vincent

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