We fully support this in GNOME. It seems like a quality-of-implementation issue in whatever file manager you're using.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Christof Arn <christof....@ethikprojekte.ch>wrote: > Hi - I'm new here, please help me, if I do not post well. > > I like the desktop entry system very much. There is only one point, that > drove me crazy, until i finally found that: > > If I use NoDisplay=true , then this .desktop-entry isn't shown when > right clicking a file in my file browser and choosing "open with an other > application". > > At > http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/ > desktop-entry-spec-latest.html > I find still the following information that conflicts with my experience: > > |NoDisplay| means "this application exists, but don't display it in the > menus". This can be useful to e.g. associate this application with MIME > types, so that it gets launched from a file manager (or other apps), > without having a menu entry for it (there are tons of good reasons for > this, including e.g. the |netscape -remote|, or |kfmclient openURL| kind > of stuff). > > I thought, "not display it in the menues" would mean only the standard > application menues with the known submenues like "Settings", > "Administration", "Graphics", "Internet", "Office" and so on - but would be > shown when I right clicking a file in my file browser and coose "open with > other application". But in my xfce this isn't the case. But it should be as > the specs say. > I don't know, if KDE or Gnome does show the "NoDiplay=true"-Entries when > right clicking in a file manager. > > I found two old threads in this mailing list about the interpretation of > NoDisplay: > - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-October/003423.html > - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-May/010396.html > > But if I see right, those issues haven't found a clear solution yet. > > I'd like to suggest to give a hint in the specs: "At the moment, some > software doesn't show desktop entries at all, so they can't be lunched from > a file manager." > If software behaves exactly the opposite way as given in the specs, this > is very confusing. > > Best regards, > > Christof > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > xdg@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > -- Jasper
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