> Please don't do it. I modify every single .desktop file that comes > from KDE (all those langs I'll never use are a significant waste of > disk space and processing time) and it is not fun doing an upgrade > when they are all conffiles. What concerns me the most though is that > when you start using your own files in preference to the defaults it > is easy to lose updates to the defaults that should be propagated into > the tweaked files.
And this could save you a ton of work. How often do you have to remove all those lines from every .desktop file...during *every* upgrade. By conffile'ng all of them you will only have to do your modifications when one of the .desktop files change...which doesn't happen that often in comparason. > I think this should be handled much like Debian's menu system does > it... one dir has the defaults, another has the overrides. i.e., > Build /usr/share/applnk instead of installing into it. it's done this way already. /usr/share/applnk is primary, $HOME/.kde/share/applnk is secondary. Either way you will still have the same problem your talking about...the wasted space. > > > I like to configure file extensions and associations globally, so each new > > > user can start XMMS with *.ogg, mplayer/aviplay for *.avi (not the KDE > > > player), mswordview for *.doc, gvim for *.tex, and so on. > > I don't see why /usr/share/mimelnk couldn't be constructed also; aside > from being accessed indirectly, it is like applnk in form and > function. This here is the same thing...except I don't see a reason for anyone messing with any of these files except to add new files or in your case remove all the extra i18n tags. > I keep thinking that having all the kdebase applnk and mimelnk files > in their own package would be good... but that is probably just > coming from wanting to fiddle with them in isolation. why? What would you gain from having them in a seperate package? Ivan -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
