Hi, > One thing I've wanted in the past is a very simple file to allow > someone to declare an alias for an application. So GNOME Clocks would > ship both an org.gnome.clocks.desktop and a gnome-clocks.desktop, the > latter looking something like: > > [Desktop Entry] > AliasFor=org.gnome.clocks.desktop > Here's the hack we did for gedit for instance:
# for backward compatibility with user defined file associations• cat << EOF > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/gedit.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=gedit Exec=gedit %U Type=Application MimeType=text/plain; NoDisplay=true X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=false X-RHEL-AliasOf=org.gnome.gedit EOF Then we did a little gtk+ patch to filter X-RHEL-AliasOf entries from the app chooser, and we still relied on the map in gnome-shell for doing deduplication of apps in gnome-shell. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list