Review Request 115683: Install app desktop files to share/applications, not in a kde5 subdir

[Rex Dieter]

> On Feb. 13, 2014, 4:28 a.m., Rex Dieter wrote:
> > fyi, http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html , supporting vendor prefixes are not only a good idea, but is strongly encouraged.  "...  it is recommended that providers of desktop-files ensure that all desktop-file ids start with a vendor prefix."
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> Alex Merry wrote:
>     However, in practice, dealing with the MPRIS spec (http://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/Media_Player.html#Property:DesktopEntry) I've found it was just an absolute pain to deal with.

Please at least allow for some discussion and feedback, before introducing such a big change.  It will likely have significant impact on downstream distributions.


- Rex


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On Feb. 12, 2014, 10:37 a.m., Alex Merry wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 12, 2014, 10:37 a.m.)
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> Review request for Build System, Extra Cmake Modules, KDE Frameworks, and David Faure.
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> Repository: extra-cmake-modules
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> Description
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> Install app desktop files to share/applications, not in a kde5 subdir
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> Given that binaries are all installed in PREFIX/bin, and have to avoid
> clashes, doing the same for desktop files is no great issue, and
> installing into a subdirectory of applications/ just complicates matters
> for client code that needs to refer to the desktop file (is it
> "kde5-foo[.desktop]", "kde5/foo[.desktop]" or just "foo[.desktop]"?).
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> Diffs
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>   kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs.cmake 46e15c17d488d56f146aba0c2d420f74a22b9152 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115683/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Alex Merry
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