On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:58:28PM +0200, Martin Albert wrote: > > qt3-designer: usr/share/applnk/Development/designer-qt3.desktop > > rhythmbox: usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop > > pppoeconf: usr/share/gnome/apps/Internet/pppoeconf.desktop > > texmacs: usr/share/texmacs/TeXmacs/misc/mime/texmacs.desktop > > > > And in addition my upstream program tries to install his .desktop > > file in /usr/X11R6/share/applnk/Network/Mail/<name>.desktop > > [That's freedom - sometimes confusing! Viewed theoretically, it stays > so. Practically, ...:] Yeah I like freedom. We all like freedom. That's the reason we participate in Debian. But there should be some standards, cause too much freedom leads to anarchy ;) > u/sh/applnk - a KDE menu entry > u/sh/applications - a KDE application entry ;-) > u/sh/gnome - gnome only? > u/share/.../mime - a mime type What's the difference between KDE menu entry and application entry? Sorry for silly question, but I don't use KDE. > u/X11R6/share/applnk/Network/Mail/<name>.desktop - i don't think this > will be found by many programs on a Debian system. Right. Especially because none program uses it already. > Seems, that nobody knows exactly? There was some discussion of the files > and locations used by KDE in its HelpCenter - saw it just before > upgrading, now it seems gone and i didn't find anything but on > freedesktop.org - uhm, interesting but not too related ;-) > > May be, http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin can help? Well I've just checked it, and yep... seems that correct location is /usr/share/applnk/*, but I wonder if other (Gnome especially) desktops will search that path too.
The problem is that I even don't know exactly how these files are used. I don't use KDE/Gnome, but I really want to provide those files if it could help users somehow. > Have a nice day, martin Thanks for comments. regards fEnIo -- _ Bartosz Feński | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp:0x13fefc40 | IRC:fEnIo _|_|_ 32-050 Skawina - Głowackiego 3/15 - w. małopolskie - Polska (0 0) phone:+48602383548 | Slackware - najsłabsze ogniwo ooO--(_)--Ooo http://skawina.eu.org | JID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | RLU:172001
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