On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:27:07AM -0400, George N. White III wrote: > It is probably time to have a system of unique identifiers. Package > managers would need to provide a way to search for these ID's.
That is what the XDG Desktop entry spec[1] is for. It helps the desktop environment know what applications are available and what they are for. With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides has a lot of hints that it is a mail reader. For example, these are all set: X-GNOME-FullName=Evolution Mail and Calendar Comment=Manage your email, contacts and schedule Keywords=email;calendar;contact;addressbook;task; Categories=GNOME;GTK;Office;Email;Calendar;ContactManagement;X-Red-Hat-Base; I believe the categories also will make the standard GNOME desktop environment let you choose it as a default email reader. I took a look at the Thunderbird .desktop file too, it also has similar information for helping the user know it is an email client. Both of these packages include a .desktop file that has dozens of different translations of the name and comments to make it easier for non-english speakers to understand what it is for. 1. https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ -- Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
