plasma-mobile and metadata.desktop files

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hi,

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On Friday, July 08, 2011 10:48:07 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> today i started poking a bit more deeply into the plasma-mobile
> repository.  this is the first in a series of emails as a result :)

I feel some house-cleaning is coming up :-)

> a lot of stuff is written with QML and using Plasma::Packages. awesome :) 
> however, the metada.desktop files in the packages are duplicated with the 
> "proper" name (e.g. plasma-applet-somethingorother.desktop).
> 
> this is messy, error prone and translators will hate us. so i added a
> simple  two line macro to the top level CMakeLists.txt file call
> install_metadata_file. you can now just do:
> 
> install_metadata_file(package/metadata.desktop 
>                                      plasma-applet-appletstrip.desktop)
> 
> and it all magically works without a copy of the .desktop file in the
> source  repo.

I've just recently started to install the metadatafile like that using CMake's 
RENAME, which is also easy enough, not sure if we really need a macro here, I 
assume it just does the renaming?

> finally, we really need to get away from names like plasma-applet-
> appletstrip.desktop .. they should be universally unique and probably
> should  be more like plasma-applet-org.kde.appletstrip.desktop.

Good style suggestion.

> finally, a question: why are the items in plasma-mobile/containments/
> install  with a plasma-applet-foo.desktop instead of a
> plasma-containment-foo.desktop?

No really good reason, although in the webdashboard case (the other is applet 
strip), it can be used as a containment or as an applet.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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