On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Martin Konold wrote:
> > 
> > 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)
> > 
> 
> AFAIK the spec that Preston & Co. did doesn't say anything about object
> activation, it's just for menu entries. If that's not true then disregard
> me.
> 

You're right. Right now, CORBA-specific entries in .desktop files are
prefixed with 'X-KDE-' or 'X-' as the standard requires, thus are KDE
specific. If we would agree on something in this direction, those prefixes
could be dropped of course.

Cristian