RE: Hildon Desktop Icon Visibility Proposal

["Spencer, Bob" <bob spencer intel com>]

Ian Lawrence wrote:
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> Ola,
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> PROPOSAL
> The ability to switch the visibility of desktop icons without needing
> to alter the .desktop file 
> 
> MOTIVE
> Currently on UME the icons are all together in 
> /usr/share/applications. 
> If I alter an icon to OnlyShowIn (the current preferred method) when
> I pull a new version of the software it will ask me if I want to use
> the new .desktop file or continue with my version.  
> This is rather confusing IMO.
> The ideal would be to have a specific directory for Hildon such as
> /usr/share/applications/hildon-apps 
> everything that I want to show (make visible) is in this directory
>  which could be symlinked to /usr/share/applications Perhaps even
> better would be something in the users home directory like:
> ~/.hildon-apps/  
> as this would stop the requirement for editing system archives
> 
> CURRENT CONFUSING SITUATION
> For example, cheese does not have OnlyShowIn but it appears in hildon
> ...others also do not have OnlyShowIn and do not appear..it seems
> that there is some special implementation (a.k.a hack) for ubuntu
> mobile   
> 

Two gconf keys:

/desktop/hildon/htmlhomeplugin/
  /onlyshowin_filter		Check OnlyShowIn value in .desktop.  If
_False_ then every .desktop is shown.  
  /onlyshowin_ignore		Always show these apps, even if they
don't have "OnlyShowIn".  Cheese is in this list.  Eventually this key
should go away when everyone is a good citizen.

> POSSIBLE BLOCKERS
> The xdg spec doesn't currently provide such a feature I believe
> 
I'm not sure if a subdirectory is OK.  We do want to remain
freedesktop.org compliant.
Bob

> just an idea anyway,
> 
> abracos
> Ian
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