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On Wednesday 06 October 2004 00:58, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 22:44, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > Since I can't try everything, I need some feedback from you guys. |
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> > What already does a great job at this? What stands out in your minds |
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> > as being forgettable because of the lack of set-up effort? |
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> I did not look, if the developer documentation is improved or what the |
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> status of eclass menu functions for .desktop files is now, but I know |
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> that we're not doing the best job there. I really don't care much, |
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> since it is a minor issue, but it is a inconvenience to users, updating |
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> an ebuild and having none or more than one entry for an application in |
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> the menu. Would be good to find someone, who is interested in this. It |
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> shouldn't be hard, just boring work. |
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Actually the new kde and gnome releases both support the same menu files |
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IN THE SAME LOCATION. Those files need to be in /usr/share/applications, |
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and follow the freedesktop menu specification. The main difference with |
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"traditional" kde .desktop files is that a Categories entry must be |
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present. With current releases just putting a file there "just works". |
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> > On the other side, what is really hard to configure? Where can we |
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> > improve how we set things up when programs are emerged? |
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> Do we have something like "mime-config"? |
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We indeed might want to have some way to synchronize file associations |
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between gnome and kde. That will probably be worked on by the respective |
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projects though. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |