Re: Request for clarification on menu/file spec

2006-02-08 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:09, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Debian we have desktop-profiles [1] which runs an Xsession.d script that manages the contents of the XDG_*_DIRS variables (and similar variables such as KDEDIRS, or CHOICESPATH). When setting the variables it parses

Re: Request for clarification on menu/file spec

2006-02-08 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Kevin Krammer wrote: Unfortunately there is no standard way to add additional prefixes, autopackage suffers from this as well Yes. But there is a nearly distribution-wide way to use /etc/profile.d (Gentoo has also /etc/env.d). As far as I understand an installer cannot even rely on

Re: Request for clarification on menu/file spec

2006-02-08 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 18:18, Jeremy White wrote: rather pragmatic approach so if it was up to me to implement xdg support into loki-setup I'd just try to put a desktop file into /usr/share/applications if it already exists. If that fails, try $XDG_DATA_DIRS and finally create

Re: Request for clarification on menu/file spec

2006-02-08 Thread Mike Hearn
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:56:54 -0800, Waldo Bastian wrote: If there is concensus that that is the right long term direction and that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages then I guess we should go that way. I would like to hear some more cheers of support for that direction first though.

Re: Request for clarification on menu/file spec

2006-02-08 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:56, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:32, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:09, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Debian we have desktop-profiles [1] which runs an Xsession.d script that manages the

Re: Request for clarification on menu/file spec

2006-02-08 Thread Jeremy White
If there is concensus that that is the right long term direction and that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages then I guess we should go that way. I would like to hear some more cheers of support for that direction first though. You can consider this another -1 vote. IMHO, the current

Re: Dimming a laptop's backlight when idle

2006-02-08 Thread Aaron Stone
Do the X people hang out on this mailing list? If not, where all do they hang out? fd.o seemed to indicate that xdg was the center of action for everything... Aaron On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 05:45 -0800, Aaron Stone wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 10:20 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Feb 02,