On 02/24/2011 06:10 AM, Pierre Wieser wrote:
>>
>> Sorry I am late to the party here and may be off thread. This was
>> discussed back in 2009 with the proposal at that time being
>> XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP.
>>
>> The shipping versions of LXDE have been using this to control how the
>> menu processor matches OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn. It also uses
>> XDG_MENU_PREFIX to control the file lookup on the toplevel
>> ${XDG_MENU_PREFIX}applications.xml
>>
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-August/010940.html
>
> I was not conscious of that thread, and, yes, XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is
> prefectly fine for me.
>
> But I never have seen this variable in any spec ? Should'n it be written
> somewhere ?
>
> Regards
> Pierre
>
>
I think what happened is that proposal never made it into an actual spec
update. If there is consensus now, I will do a patch. I have a few other
clarification/textual patches to Basedir, DE, and Menu that I could propose now
also that came out of a fresh look at implementing a menu processor.
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