Ian Lawrence wrote:
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Ola,
PROPOSAL
The ability to switch the visibility of desktop icons without needing
to alter the .desktop file
MOTIVE
Currently on UME the icons are all together in
/usr/share/applications.
If I alter an icon to OnlyShowIn (the current preferred method) when
I pull a new version of the software it will ask me if I want to use
the new .desktop file or continue with my version.
This is rather confusing IMO.
The ideal would be to have a specific directory for Hildon such as
/usr/share/applications/hildon-apps
everything that I want to show (make visible) is in this directory
which could be symlinked to /usr/share/applications Perhaps even
better would be something in the users home directory like:
~/.hildon-apps/
as this would stop the requirement for editing system archives
CURRENT CONFUSING SITUATION
For example, cheese does not have OnlyShowIn but it appears in hildon
...others also do not have OnlyShowIn and do not appear..it seems
that there is some special implementation (a.k.a hack) for ubuntu
mobile
Two gconf keys:
/desktop/hildon/htmlhomeplugin/
/onlyshowin_filterCheck OnlyShowIn value in .desktop. If
_False_ then every .desktop is shown.
/onlyshowin_ignoreAlways show these apps, even if they
don't have OnlyShowIn. Cheese is in this list. Eventually this key
should go away when everyone is a good citizen.
POSSIBLE BLOCKERS
The xdg spec doesn't currently provide such a feature I believe
I'm not sure if a subdirectory is OK. We do want to remain
freedesktop.org compliant.
Bob
just an idea anyway,
abracos
Ian
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