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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: standardizing desktop entry files
From:       David Faure <faure () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-05-03 10:42:22
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On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 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
as well ?
If it looks for anything that ends with Desktop Entry, it catches gnome
ones as well doesn't it ?
I don't get your point.

> stay backward compatible with GNOME)

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David FAURE
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