On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> wrote:
> In Fedora, we've had the issue where some desktop files were incorrectly > shipped with a vendor prefix. Due to the fact that the file name often > is used as a key, we then are 'stuck' with either maintaining the bad > vendor prefix indefinitely (potentially incompatibly with other > distributors > or upstreams), or changing the vendor prefix (breaking edited menus, user > shortcuts, and so on.). > > One solution would be to have implementations be tolerant of vendor changes > in desktop file names - if they don't find a file with the vendor prefix, > to > try again without the vendor prefix. Is this something that's worth adding > as a recommendation for implementations via XDG, or are there better > solutions? > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > In which specific cases does having it as a key become a problem? All the cases I can think of are lists, so just having an additional name in there does not hurt. J. Leclanche
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