From kde-devel  Mon May 03 09:12:08 1999
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 09:12:08 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: standardizing desktop entry files
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 08:56:56PM +0200, Sven Radej wrote:
> > I will repeat what I said before.
> > When detecting desktop entry let's check for
> > "[<anything> Desktop Entry]" and not extension. Extension should not be used
> > for detection at all.  <anything> can be "KDE", "GNOME" , "UDE", "FOODE"...
> > anything.
> Oh, another solution comes to my mind :
> let's add a new method to KConfig, called setDesktopGroup(), which sets the
> group to the "[* Desktop Entry]" one.  Looks already cleaner ;)
> And it enables to support any syntax that will happen later (e.g. if UDE
> decides to name their group "Desktop File for UDE" ;)
> 
> Drawback : the first solution doesn't involve fixing apps, the second one does.
> Well, it's only a search and replace ;)

I vote for two. I guess it has to look for [Desktop Entry] as well. (To
stay 
backward compatible with GNOME)

Cheers,
Waldo
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