On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> We considered this at some length for the Gnome solution. IIRC the reason
> is simply that .desktop files are for menu entries and icons; this goal
> does not correspond one-to-one with what you want for activation. That is,
> there are servers that certainly don't need an icon, and executables that
> implement lots of different servers, etc.

Does this implicitly mean that GNOME will use different semantics for
.desktop files compared to KDE? (I am refering to the stuff Preston put a
lot of effort in)

Regards,
-- martin

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