On 27/12/13 11:30, Kevin Ottens wrote: > On Friday 27 December 2013 11:22:57 Alex Merry wrote: >> On 27/12/13 11:04, Kevin Ottens wrote: >>> On Monday 23 December 2013 14:51:19 Alex Merry wrote: >>>> Actually, I think we should just install application files directly in >>>> share/applications. (ie: change the value of XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR in >>>> KDEInstallDirs.cmake). It makes everyone's lives more difficult to have >>>> subdirectories (as I discovered while creating and implementing the >>>> MPRIS2 spec - how do you tell applications how to find Amarok's desktop >>>> file: "amarok.desktop" won't work, because it's not in >>>> share/applications, but "kde4-amarok.desktop" or "kde/amarok.desktop" >>>> requires knowing something about the buildsystem magic that installs the >>>> desktop file). >>> >>> Definitely something which would need a closer look. I feel that wouldn't >>> help for co-installability though. >> >> Co-installable applications means versioned binary names, at which point >> it's easy enough to do versioned desktop file names. But I was under >> the impression we didn't care about co-installable applications. > > Ah gotcha... stupid me, it's for applications only of course. Then yes, looks > like we don't need to deal with that indeed.
Well, there are a couple of edge cases to deal with; specifically, kio installs kmailservice and ktelnetservice executables with associated desktop files, but we already have to deal with co-installability for the executables themselves, so the desktop files are no harder. Alex _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
