Renaming Plasma's applications.menu file
Nicolas Fella
nicolas.fella at gmx.de
Thu Oct 19 22:13:07 BST 2023
Hi,
In KF5 KService ships /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu, our menu
definition according to
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html
Since this will cause a conflict between KF5 and KF6 (and potentially
other desktop environments) for Plasma 6 I'm planning to:
- Move the file to plasma-workspace
- Rename it to plasma-applications.menu
- Set XDG_MENU_PREFIX="plasma-" at Plasma startup
See https://phabricator.kde.org/T12542,
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kservice/-/merge_requests/153, and
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/3053
@distributions: I know some distributions change the name of this file
downstream (i.e. via -DAPPLICATIONS_MENU_NAME=foo) to work around
aforementioned issues. Such workarounds should no longer be needed and
removed.
Cheers
Nico
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