On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 16:24, Heinrich Wendel wrote: > The old version of the desktop entries are the ones without "Category" > element, so called legacy .desktop files. My opinion is to change these to > include the "Category" field and send the new version upstream since the two > library implementations have still problems with legacy .desktop files and > the big bunch of applications from KDE and GNOME will already have this > field.
'legacy' I thought meant the old GTK1 and older KDE entries, those can be supported trough the legacy support afaik (for gnome those are the ones installed in /usr/share/gnome/apps/ ). Lack of Categories in recent /usr/share/applications .desktop's is not much of an issue (?), afaik categories has been in the spec for a while. I remember there being another thing that changed between the two versions of the spec that may need some patching in the spec handling code -most of our current .desktop's adhere to the slightly older spec version-, but can't remember what exactly that was right now. I should reread some of that stuff probably. I'm basing these assumptions on the look into it i had a while ago, i might be having things wrong. > > In general i pretty much agree with what is stated in this revision, > > only the part about portage commands is a bit unclear, domenu & doicon > > should be functions for the few apps that do not create entries > > themselves. This happens almost never. > > They should just insert the icon/desktop file into the correct location. So > you do 'dodesktop foo.desktop' instead of 'insinto /usr/share/applications; > doins foo.desktop". Maybe it's a bit overhead. I know what they intend to do, but very few apps require this, most install the .desktop's just fine. Older apps that install in 'legacy' dirs should be covered by fore mentioned legacy support (?) > > The icon theme i don't really understand. Apps come with their own icons > > usually, i see no need for a reference (?) gentoo icon set. > > I think I didn't make me very cleare here. Please don't confuse icon theme and > icon set. I'm not for every app should contain a gentoo made icon. But apps > need a place to put their icons to. Generally they belong > into /usr/share/pixmaps, but if an app provides icons of differenz sizes they > have to belong to an icon theme. But to which one? KDE-default, > GNOME-default? So we have to provide a place to put them, which I just called > "the Gentoo icon theme". Isn't the gnome icon theme default the system default as well and KDE default wrong because it uses SLOTing for different versions, so the icon themes go in a different root as well? These icon themes should be pretty much interchangeable shouldn't they ? Another thing on my 'things to investigate' list i haven't had the time to look at, am I wrong here ? - foser PS. Sorry for this late reply, had little time to go trough -dev mail this week. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
