i don't know if this will help this conversation but :
i use Gentoo.
Gentoo supports a _bunch_ of desktop/window managers.
i use KDE mostly.
i _know_, as had been said here, that there is a "standard" for this out there.
i think freedesktop.org might be a starting point for the standard.
when using 'portage' (the Gentoo package manager), i get realtime
setup of installed GUI applications for both KDE native apps and
pretty much everything else.
this same mechanism can install the same applications into a Gnome
desktop as well, in a cross GUI way.
i don't know the explicit details of how this works ... but it seems
to work quite smoothly and consistently without any gyrations or
rebooting/restarting of X etc ... for many of the GUI systems that
Gentoo supports.
i would look to the freedesktop.org site for the "standards" and
perhaps inquire within the Gentoo community as to how the 'ebuild'
mechanism works as it relates to the desktop icon stuff.
'ebuilds' are the language for the 'portage' application that drive
build/configuration of the "cross platform/cross desktop" applications
on Gentoo.
Tony
On 9/7/05, Tony Maro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[... stuff about application install ...]
> -Tony
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