On 6/9/05, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CORRECTED POSTING. > KDE installs: > > applications.menu > kde-information.menu > kde-screensavers.menu > kde-settings.menu > applications-merged/kde-essential.menu > applications-merged/kde-multimedia-music.menu > > and then if you edit the menu: > > applications-merged/applications-kmenuedit.menu > > So, your suggestion would seem to be compatible with the current KDE > practice -- only two would need to be renamed, the first one: > "applications.menu" as you suggest, and the menu edit file. > > But, I wonder about how software would parse this. In the "menu" > directory, there is no problem, the menu would only use the files that > started with "kde-", which the program would know. > > But, I have added: > > applications-merged/Engineering.menu > applications-merged/misc.menu > applications-merged/xwp-office.menu > > as you can see, the third one could be a problem. Is there a desktop > called: "xwp"? So, I would suggest that if we are going to do it by > prefix that this be setup like this (in my example): > > kde-applications.menu > kde-information.menu > kde-screensavers.menu > kde-settings.menu > kde-applications-merged/essential.menu > kde-applications-merged/multimedia-music.menu > kde-applications-merged/applications-menuedit.menu > applications-merged/Engineering.menu > applications-merged/misc.menu > applications-merged/xwp-office.menu > > and there is no ambiguity even though the parser doesn't know the names > of all the desktops. All it needs to know for KDE is: "kde" and > "applications". The last three would be used by all desktops. > > -- > JRT >
This sounds even better to me. Anyone else have any comments on it? -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
