Bastian, Waldo wrote:
It's not entirely clear to me what you try to achieve here. That said...
"Directory" type .desktop files are used by the application menu to
provide a title and icon for sub-menus. KDE also uses them to provide a
title and icon for sub-directories when used in the file system. In
these cases the .desktop file should be named ".directory" and it
describes the directory it is placed in. That kind of usage is not
covered by any XDG specification though, so your milage will vary.
Thanks, I started to think that the "Directory" type didn't have any
uses, I tried rox, nautilus and thunar and none of these file browsers
does anything with them. Most funny is the response from nautilus which
offers to "open" the desktop file, but when you try to do this it throws
the error that it can't open the file because "The location is not a
folder" :)
Maybe it would help to make the desktop entry spec a little more verbose
on these usage things, there is no way for the reader to guess these things.
What I'm trying to do is 1) set some kind of flag for some directories
and then 2) tell the file browser my application can open those
directories. Since I now see that this can not be done with any of the
xdg specs I will go for the "project file" solution. I'll put a file in
each of those directories with a newly defined mimetype for my
application. Probably those "project files" will look a lot like
.desktop files.
-- Jaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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