On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 03:11 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: <snip> > I was thinking that this is the kind of problem that has cross-desktop > implications, and so I wondered how KDE solves this problem. We should > probably take their feedback on this? > > On the other hand, I think there is a way to do this in a > cross-desktop fashion with existing infrastructure as well. > > We already have `update-desktop-database` for updating the MimeType > cache from desktop files, and that's supposed to be run after any new > .desktop files are added to $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications, so I was > wondering if caches for the other properties could also be generated > by the same tool at the same time?
I wouldn't want the code to live in update-desktop-database (which is in shared-mime-info), but we can certainly add support for launching scripts in a specific directory whenever it's called. Note that update-desktop-database is probably not called by packaging managers or application's Makefiles when they don't handle mime-types, so this would be something that would need to be announced, and followed by distributions. Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
