Re: Application Icons

[Chris Spencer <gmane 20 evilspam spamgourmet com>]

Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Montag, den 09.05.2005, 23:55 -0400 schrieb Chris Spencer: 
>
> > When I use Nautilus to view the menu files in /usr/share/applications, 
> > it only shows the value of the name attribute and not the filename of 
> > the file itself. Is there any way to get Nautilus to simply display all 
> > files as files and not pre-filter them in any way?
>
>
> No, unfortunately not.
> At the moment, you're not even able to display/change the filename of a
> desktop file in the property window, which is quiet unbearable. The
> latter will hopefully be addressed by a fix on our way to 2.14.
> I think having an additional "resolve .desktop Name fields" knob right
> in the directory view UI is overhead and won't be implemented. If you
> need desktop-ids, just use
>
> find /usr/share/applications -type f | sed 's/^\/usr\/share
> \/applications\///' | sort
>
> unfortunately, the order won't be correct for subdirs - but, oh well,
> this isn't really common.

In the mean time, we can always use Konqueror, which doesn't impose 
these odd and frustrating limitations.

Chris