From kde-core-devel  Mon Jul 26 13:15:27 1999
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:15:27 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: new "Label" keyword for desktop files...
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93299548507472

Pietro Iglio wrote:
> 
> At 14.48 26/07/99 +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> >Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Pietro Iglio wrote:
> >>
> >> > Application .desktop files (but what I'm going to say may apply to other
> >> > types of desktop files as well) have a "Name" key that is used both as
> >> > the system application identifier and as the application name in the
> K-menu.
> >>
> >> Why not use the file name as identifier?
> >
> >Yes, why can't the file name be used as identifier? That would be much
> >simpler wouldn't it?
> 
> This was my original proposal talking with Simon Hausmann (kded), and
> he objected that Name is already a general identifier for all kinds of
> services, not only application .desktop files.
> 
> We might have KTrader::findServiceById(QString), but I'm sure that
> developers will confuse it with KTrader::findServiceByName(QString).
> 
> In other words I'm not happy if for some services we use Name as identifier
> and for others (=applications) we use the file name or the AppId entry.
> This is why I suggested the Label entry.

Let's give the services an Id-field then instead of changing the .desktop files.

Cheers,
Waldo
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