(Please try to reply on-list) This sounds like a bug in Thunar, then. Please file a bug with Thunar.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Christof Arn <[email protected] > wrote: > It's Thunar 1.3, the default file manager with fedora xfce. > > On 01/07/2014 05:04 PM, schrieb Jasper St. Pierre: > > We fully support this in GNOME. It seems like a quality-of-implementation > issue in whatever file manager you're using. > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Christof Arn < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi - I'm new here, please help me, if I do not post well. >> >> I like the desktop entry system very much. There is only one point, that >> drove me crazy, until i finally found that: >> >> If I use NoDisplay=true , then this .desktop-entry isn't shown when >> right clicking a file in my file browser and choosing "open with an other >> application". >> >> At >> >> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html >> I find still the following information that conflicts with my experience: >> >> |NoDisplay| means "this application exists, but don't display it in the >> menus". This can be useful to e.g. associate this application with MIME >> types, so that it gets launched from a file manager (or other apps), >> without having a menu entry for it (there are tons of good reasons for >> this, including e.g. the |netscape -remote|, or |kfmclient openURL| kind >> of stuff). >> >> I thought, "not display it in the menues" would mean only the standard >> application menues with the known submenues like "Settings", >> "Administration", "Graphics", "Internet", "Office" and so on - but would be >> shown when I right clicking a file in my file browser and coose "open with >> other application". But in my xfce this isn't the case. But it should be as >> the specs say. >> I don't know, if KDE or Gnome does show the "NoDiplay=true"-Entries when >> right clicking in a file manager. >> >> I found two old threads in this mailing list about the interpretation of >> NoDisplay: >> - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-October/003423.html >> - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-May/010396.html >> >> But if I see right, those issues haven't found a clear solution yet. >> >> I'd like to suggest to give a hint in the specs: "At the moment, some >> software doesn't show desktop entries at all, so they can't be lunched from >> a file manager." >> If software behaves exactly the opposite way as given in the specs, this >> is very confusing. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Christof >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xdg mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg >> > > > > -- > Jasper > > > -- > Dr. Dr. Christof Arn, ethikprojekte.ch, Postfach 21, 7412 Scharans > > -- Jasper
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