From kde-devel  Sun Feb 25 22:30:52 2001
From: Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:30:52 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: furthermore (in the interests of cooperation)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=98314037308655


Hi,

As I mentioned in my earlier mail, the Desktop Entry Standard was
created by KDE and GNOME developers exactly for this purpose.  KDE scans
for .desktop files in standard places and in addition in
user-configurable places.  If the GNOME applications have these .desktop
files they should appear in Konqueror as a result of the scan.  This
alleviates the need for KDE to distribute GNOME application info (which
might vary between the various GNOME distributions) and vice versa. 
Also it has the added convenience that programs don't show up unless
they are actually installed.  This is especially useful when it comes to
3rd party apps from Gnome and KDE, which would have their .desktop files
(application and mimetype) come and go with the application itself.

One thing Gnome apps should do if they install on a system with KDE is
run something like:

  if which kbuildsycoca >& /dev/null ; then
    kbuildsycoca
  fi

Which will re-scan for .desktop files.  If there is an equivalent way to
activate GNOME scanning please let me know.

Ciao,

Dre



Seth Nickell wrote:
> 
> I notice Konqueror has almost no GNOME applications registered (in spite
> of knowing about many non-GNOME applications such as JBuilder, etc), and
> gmc was just as bad about KDE apps, of course (ok, gmc was just bad all
> around ;). Is there somebody I could send a list of MIME/types and
> affiliated applications to so we can all support eachother better? 
> I would be happy to provide whatever info you need. We should make it as
> painless as possible for users to mix and match environments if that is
> what they desire (there are key applications on both sides that the
> other doesn't really have a functional equal on the other side, for
> example gimp on gnome and killustrator on kde).
> 
> It is probably not only necessary, but healthy, if users find they can
> use KDE apps under GNOME and GNOME apps under KDE. Remember that we
> should be about opening up options, not shutting them down. Rather than
> squabbling over the relatively tiny linux desktop of today, we can work
> together and grow Linux on the desktop to the point where there's easily
> "enough for everyone" ;-)
> 
> -Seth
 
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