On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 02/07/2013 23:54, Jasper St. Pierre a écrit : > > >> I'm curious what the original rationale for adding OnlyShowIn / >> NotShowIn to desktop actions. Personally, I think applications >> switching behavior based on what desktop environment they're in is >> wrong. I'm curious if we can remove these fields for desktop actions >> from the desktop entry specification, since I cannot think of a valid >> use case for environment-specific >> > > Hey, > > There is probably no need to specify a target-desktop in most case, but I > can see the option being useful for some specific cases ... what's the > issue with keeping it as an option is somebody feels like the need to use > it? (I don't have specific examples in mind, but I can see it being used for > desktop specific features or e.g when different desktops have different > design views on what items should be exposed in their UI ... imagine an > IDE, you might want have a list item "start Qt project" and "start KDE > project" under KDE and "start GTK project" under GNOME or XFCE) > Why shouldn't an application be able to start a KDE project under GNOME? Furthermore, why is this just applied to just actions interface, and probably not to the in-window UI. Do we want to also specify XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, which was shot down last time? > Cheers, > Sebastien Bacher > > ______________________________**_________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/**mailman/listinfo/xdg<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg> > -- Jasper
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