Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] Application Indexing

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:49 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 1) we need to watch the dirs for desktop files (use
> > tracker_add_service_path to watch /usr/share/applications)
> >
> > 2) we use (1) above to work out its a desktop file (im not sure about
> > checking the extension is .desktop - Im only really interested in apps
> > in /usr/share/applications)
>
> /usr/share/applications is a good default, but you should also check
> the environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS. This contains a list of paths
> [2]. You should also check these paths (you have to append
> "applications" to each element in XDG_DATA_DIRS).
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
> [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.5.html
> [2] eg. on Gentoo:
> XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share:/usr/local/share"

yeah thats a good idea - we should check for an "applications" folder in
all those...

jamie.