I'm hoping some people on the list can help save me some time. There's currently a bug #2172 about how XFCE needs to have the XDG_CONFIG_DIRS variable set to /etc/xdg to see the menus even though that's the default location.
When I started to investigate why this would happen, I realized that something we've always attributed to desktop-file-utils is something that each desktop implements the way they see fit. I'm talking about creating the menus, and there's a specification on freedesktop.org call the XDG Base Directory Specification. http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html So, I'd like somebody who actually has multiple of the major desktop environments (gnome, kde and xfce) to run some test cases for me. I really only ever build gnome, and I don't have a lot of interest in building all of KDE to find out whether this is the right fix or not. Basically, the solution I think is the right thing to do from reading various bugs and looking at the source code in glib2 and libxfce4util is to always set XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS. See the last comment here: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2172#comment:12 Any takers? -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
