At 20.44 05/07/99 -0400, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
>Hi Preston
>
>Could you leave us a micro-note about the status of the .desktop standard
>and its acception by Gnome people?
>
>It would be nice
>
>1) to make a common announcement
>2) to publish the standard
>3) to include it in development documentation - in order to avoid
>unclarities as the one below

... and it's important to specify how it is possible to understand 
whether a file is a desktop file or not.

- should we check the extension?
- should we look at the first line?
- ...?

Greetings,

-- Pietro