From kde-devel Sun May 02 23:30:55 1999 From: Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 23:30:55 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: standardizing desktop entry files X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92568777321463 On Mon, 3 May 1999, David Faure wrote: > 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. We will provide backwards compatibility code as well as conversion, either explicitly or implicitly. This isn't going to be rocket science, I have a large chunk done already. It seems to me that aside from a few fears which really aren't justified, the only reason to keep the old format is for sentimental reasons. --- Preston Brown Systems Engineer pbrown@redhat.com Red Hat Software, Inc.