On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:23 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > On Wed, September 7, 2005 09:37, Not Zed wrote: > > > > Sounds like a design issue with the panel to me. Why should it > > hard-code any applications at all? And if it does hard-code them, then > > it can hard-code the appropriate one for that gnome version i guess. > > Because we want to have default launchers on the panel for the most used > applications, ie web browser and e-mail client. > > And we can't change this at every release cycle since this is the > configuration for the user: when the user upgrades to GNOME 2.14, his > nice evolution-2.4 launcher will disappear if we hard-code the version > in the desktop filename.
Umm, why can't you change it each release cycle? you've got 6 months to change the name. Is that not long enough? Would you like more time? > > The version number exists i presume for parallel installs (not that they > > work anymore). > > You could probide two desktop files: one that does not contain any > version informations and that runs evolution, and other desktop files > for every versions. > > The evolution binary would launch the latest stable evolution that is > installed. > > I think it's really necessary to provide a stable way that does not > change at each new major version to launch evolution. Well, I think you're wrong. -- adfa(evolution-2.4:20087): gtkhtml-WARNING **: cannot find icon: 'stock_insert-url' in gnome _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers