Hi > [file names of .desktop files]
> Are the filenames really used for anything? I did not think mutch on them, > because I assumed that they were just dummies used to offer the info to > the system, and that all information would be in the html, and extracted > to be stored in another format/organization when you ran the xdg command. AFAIK all .desktop files can be used on the desktop to create clickable icons. xboard.desktop gets installed in /usr/share/applications/ and therefore would create a conflict if it is named similar to other packages. At the moment I'm not sure where we a distribution would store desktop files that we want to use just for mime-types association, but I think clearer names that will avoid conflicts is a good idea... > What should still be solved is how to include this stuff in make-install. > PerhapsArun could have a look at that. I will, should be easy to add to the make file and building of the rpms > A good question is whether we should also provide desktop files to > run XBoard on FICS and ICC (WinBoard creates start-menu items for > those). They would not be associated with any mime type, but they would > come in handy in the menus. (Although we could define amime type for > user ICS logon files, so that they can log in to an ICS of their choice by > clicking the correponding logon file.) We could provide some for ICS and FICS, but if people want to use other ones, I think it perhaps would make more sense to add a section in the documentation on how to do this in general, e.g. copy xboard.desktop and modify line xyz... cheers Arun
