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On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:56, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> After all, if I have Gnome, KDE, WindowMaker, |
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> AfterStep, and Fluxbox installed, the current proposal would have to |
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> create 5 separate menus and maintain them to keep everything accurate. |
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Not quite, as I understand it..... KDE and Gnome can share one *.desktop file |
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(its just a matter of environment variables to get them looking in the same |
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directory) and I believe some *box are going that way too. |
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> Under my proposal, it would only have to maintain ONE and all 5 window |
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> managers would use it. |
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Thats a good principal, but it doesnt explain why you want to create a _new_ |
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standard rather than http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec/ |
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as used by KDE and Gnome already. |
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