Le 08/01/2022 à 20:40, Benjamin Riefenstahl a écrit :
Hi Didier,

Didier Kryn writes:
But the launchers are to be installed/uninstalled by every user in
their own ~/.local
What happens, if you add another user after installation?  AFAIU default
launchers should be in a global place.

    We want to install files only under /usr/local, and, for Freedesktop.org, there's no other global place than /usr/share/applications. Full point (AFAIK). I agree with you it's not very clever.

    Users could make their .local/applications be a symlink to /usr/local/share/applications. This is not a standard and they would loose the ability to have their own private entries in their applications menu. I think very few users actually have private entries in their applications menu - this is not the same as launchers on the desktop. Therefore this symlink could be considered as a workaround: the applications menu would only expose globally installed applications, either provided by the distro or in /usr/local. It still has to be tested; Freedesktop might forbid it as well...

--      Didier

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