Jeremy White wrote: > > rather pragmatic approach so if it was up to me to implement xdg > > support into loki-setup I'd just try to put a desktop file into > > /usr/share/applications if it already exists. If that fails, try > > $XDG_DATA_DIRS and finally create ~/.local/share/applications. The > > uid of the user you are running as doesn't matter. > > Yep. The whole problem is when you say 'try $XDG_DATA_DIRS', what > exactly does that mean? I'm trying to write a single .desktop file; > do I write it to every directory listed in $XDG_DATA_DIRS? Do I write > it just to the first directory, or do I (my personal favorite) write > it to the first writable directory in the list?
To the first writeable, just like loki-setup already does it e.g. for installing symlinks in $PATH. > Note that I'm actually not waiting on this; my implementation is done > and works. My concern is that I want to improve the specification so > that others can find it simpler to do this in the future. Nice :-) cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Development V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
