On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 03:29:59PM -0400, George N. White III wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 12:33, Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > XDG Desktop entry spec says: > > The desktop entry specification describes desktop entries: files d > escribing information about an application such as the name, icon, > and description. These files are used for application launchers and > for creating menus of applications that can be launched. > > > That doesn't address the problem of totally different programs > sharing similar > names.
You want a universal registry of software names? You are going to be in a very sad situation if you expect anyone to adhere to it. What are you going to do, fine people for creating software with a similar name? Some sort of global copyright system? Good luck. And if you think that a UUID would be better, you're out of your mind. That's even harder for humans to understand. The point of the XDG Desktop Entry spec is to provide as much information as you can about software to make it easier to tell what it is. > > > > With Evoluion, the .desktop file provides has a lot of hints that it > > is a mail reader. For example, these are all set: > > > > "mail reader" is not very helpful as it misses the most of the modern email > "client" > functions: composing, sending, calendar, addresses, spam management, etc. I would argue that composing and sending email is part of the definition of an email client. The evolution desktop entry actually says it does calendaring (which I don't consider part of an email client) and managing addressbook. Spam management is not something i'd even think about in a client anymore, its mostly server-side anymore. No idea why your software says "mail reader", I used the Evolution and Thunderbird desktop entry as an example of how it is actually implemented in GNOME using the XDG. -- 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
