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| From: | Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-desktop@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-desktop] Put program in menu | ||
| Date: | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:53:12 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200512061746.57783.carlo@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-desktop] Put program in menu by Chris Gianelloni |
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| 1 | On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:15, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
| 2 | > A *much* better solution is to have upstream create a .desktop entry. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | In theory yes, in practice you have to tell upstream about standard¹ and |
| 5 | tools², because the share of invalid .desktop entries is incredible. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Likely that there're also issues with hardcoded paths and ${ROOT}. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | |
| 10 | [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fdesktop_2dentry_2dspec |
| 11 | [2] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdesktop_2dfile_2dutils |