On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 20:02 +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > > Adding "Shortcut Group" allows us to add other stuff in the future, > without breaking desktop file that may exist at that time, with weird > shortcut names.
I guess that is a valid point, after all. Might still be nice to go for consistency, though Shortcuts=A,B,C [Shortcut A] ... Looks better to me than DesktopShortcuts=A,B,C [Shortcut Group A] ... > > My original mail was not meant to include all and only the new spec > text, but I would go with this: > <<<< > Desktop entries of type Application can optionally include one or more > shortcut groups [actions]. This represent additional ways to invoke the > particular application; it is expected that application launchers will > expose them in some way (for example, as a submenu) within the context > of the application, to build so called "Quicklists" or "Jumplists". > It is still perfectly legal for any consumer of this specification to > ignore secondary actions, so the primary way to invoke the application > should be through the main Exec line, as well as the primary Name and > Icon. > Also, it is not expected that other desktop components showing app lists > (such as, software installers or file type settings) will provide any UI > for these actions, therefore applications should only include actions > that make sense as general launchers. > Finally, no provision is made to check that the application is actually > running when these additional actions are invoked or shown. Thanks, I think that is very reasonable. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
