From kde-devel Sun May 02 22:43:30 1999 From: David Faure Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 22:43:30 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: standardizing desktop entry files X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92568492719753 On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 11:46:48PM +0200, Dirk A. Mueller wrote: > David Faure wrote: > > > Opinion ? > > It doesn't hurt replacing "[KDE Desktop Entry]" with "[Desktop Entry]" > in head branch, does it? sure, it'll be some mess until every app uses > the new format (perl might help a lot), but it would be a easy and > clean solution without the need for adding new code, bloat libs and > eventually break other code after putting so much effort in not doing > so. This would mean that existing KDE installations would be totally broken when upgrading to KDE 2... Because the personal apps and bindings in ~/.kde/share/applnk will still use the old format. So the usual question "will I lost my configuration", wouldn't be answered by no as usual but by yes. Do we really want that ? -- David FAURE david.faure@insa-lyon.fr, faure@kde.org http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/index.html KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today