Some information was provided upstream, but the questions still haven't been answered:
> Michael Ventnor 2009-06-10 20:19:57 PDT > > Maybe I'm missing something, but I find this a really braindead API decision: > indicate_server_set_desktop_file > > 1) How are we supposed to find out where the desktop file is? > 2) What about users who don't have a desktop file for Thunderbird or any other > Mozilla application that will use this? > 3) Why can't we set the name and icon of our application directly (and > anything > else the library reads from the desktop file)? Also troubling from upstream: > Martin Stránský 2010-01-06 07:07:59 PST > > Shat is the status of libindicate? If you want to support it, is it > available/supported by any other linux distribution? Is it a part of any > desktop environment? I can't find any Fedora package for instance. > Ted Gould added the following comment to Launchpad bug #334344: > > The reason that we used the desktop file is becuase it provides a lot of nice > information. The high resolution icon, the name, the description and those > are > already translatable. Desktop applications on Linux do have desktop files > whether they get added by upstream sources or distributors. For instance, > Thuderbird wouldn't show up in the software center to be installed unless it > had a desktop file. > We haven't uploaded the API documentation anywhere on the web officially. It > is included in the libindicate-doc package. I have uploaded that here: > http://people.canonical.com/~ted/libindicate/current/ > Hopefully that helps. I couldn't find this comment in this bug... but if true, the lack of an officially presented API anywhere standard is a barrier towards anyone other than Ubuntu taking this up. -- wishlist: integrate libnotify in Thunderbird notifications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334344 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
