On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 09:23 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > What I would really like to see is that the autostart stuff can be > merged into the normal desktop files that show up in the menus. In > this case, Hidden should be used to state that it shouldn't appear > in the menus. We could then have another key called Autostart in > the desktop file spec, which specifies whether or not something is > to be automatically started. This would make it much easier to have > add/remove to/from autostart, integrated with the menu system, and > would simplify how ISVs provide autostart files, as they won't have > to provide the same .desktop file multiple times in different paths. > > I imagine the reason it isn't being done this way, is due to the > potential performance concerns of loading up the menu tree on every > log-in. We can probably easily resolve this with caching, or some > other way. The panel and/or some other things may be loading up > the menus already anyway, because they need to display them to the > user. > and also because sometimes, the command to run from autostart is different from the one used in the normal menu (can't remember which one, but I found a module with that problem when implementing the autostart stuff for GNOME).
Also, some other apps are for autostart, but don't show up in the menu (screensaver, power manager, etc) Anyway, I think Autostart-Enabled would be a better key than Hidden. -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
