From kde-linux Wed Oct 27 21:01:41 2004 From: Kevin Krammer Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:01:41 +0000 To: kde-linux Subject: Re: [kde-linux] /usr/share/applications/*.desktop Message-Id: <200410272301.41924.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-linux&m=109891147629235 On Wednesday 27 October 2004 22:23, jberthiaume@gniinc.net wrote: > I checked a lot of tgz packages and many of them are creating .desktop > files in /usr/share/applications/. > > I would like to know what is the purpose of those file. Of course I know .desktop files are used for a couple of things: http://freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec > they are link to application in KDE but why they are in > /usr/share/applications? Aren't they suppose to be in $KDEDIR/share/applnk/ > to be in the menu. Then why people create those in a different folder? Is > this only a distro confusion from converting rpm to tgz? KDE is one of the desktop environments that implements freedesktop.org specifications and one of the more recent specifications is the menu specification: http://freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec For backwards compatability KDE also understands files in KDEDIR/share/applnk, but following the shared specification has the advantage that the application will be accessible in other desktops menus as well. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User www.mrunix.de - German Unix/Linux programming forum www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.