Hi all,
I just noticed that it is allowed to have subdirectories in the
"DATA_DIR/applications/" directory. I was quite surprised to find that
update-desktop-database handles this by replacing the directory
separator '/' with a dash '-' when hashing the desktop files.
So when I have a "share/applications/kde/foo.desktop" this file is
listed in "share/applications/mimeinfo.cache" as "kde-foo.desktop".
Since I am the maintainer of a perl module to find appropriate programs
for a mimetype I would like to know the details of this behavior.
I have two questions about it.
1) Is this naming scheme in any of the XDG specifications? If not, in
which spec does it belong - I would certainly expect it in the desktop
entry spec since it discusses the "mimeinfo.cache" file already.
2) How do I resolve a desktop file from the mimeinfo.cache file ?
Obvious replacing dashes by '/' isn't going to work since I find things
like "xterm-usercreated.desktop" in my ".local/share/applications/"
directory
-- Jaap Karssenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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