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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: new "Label" keyword for desktop files...
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date:       1999-07-26 13:28:07
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Pietro Iglio wrote:
> 
> At 14.48 26/07/99 +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> >Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Pietro Iglio wrote:
> >>
> >> > Application .desktop files (but what I'm going to say may apply to other
> >> > types of desktop files as well) have a "Name" key that is used both as
> >> > the system application identifier and as the application name in the
> K-menu.
> >>
> >> Why not use the file name as identifier?
> >
> >Yes, why can't the file name be used as identifier? That would be much
> >simpler wouldn't it?
> 
> This was my original proposal talking with Simon Hausmann (kded), and
> he objected that Name is already a general identifier for all kinds of
> services, not only application .desktop files.
> 
> We might have KTrader::findServiceById(QString), but I'm sure that
> developers will confuse it with KTrader::findServiceByName(QString).
> 
> In other words I'm not happy if for some services we use Name as identifier
> and for others (=applications) we use the file name or the AppId entry.
> This is why I suggested the Label entry.
> 
Hmm, the problem is still that Name is translated. As this it can't be
used
as identifier. And all the apps out there have Name translated, why
would you
want to through this away?

Greetings, Stephan

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