>On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Emmanuel Maillard<maha...@free.fr> wrote: >> But it's an external appplication, your desktop environment, that handle >> *.desktop file; wine just generate them... > >As per the private email I sent. I could see that working if we can >convince Alexandre of the need of an external helper application for >OS X. Keeping the existing winemenubuilder code mostly as is and >having it write xdg menus and associations would be pretty simple. We >could just change a few lines to have it write xdg in >~/Library/Application Support/Wine/WineMenuBuilder > >> So don't choose ~/Applications but : /Applications/Wine or >> let's the user to choose if want an Applications folder in is Homedir. > >The reason for using ~/Applications as opposed to /Applications is >that Wine has no knowledge or real support for multi-user prefixes. >Each .wine being local to the user that creates it will have their own >applications, etc. If we write the menus to /Applications and another >user logs in then they won't be able to run those applications. Another good reason is that /Applications can only be written to by an administrative user using sudo.
James McKenzie