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

[Alex Merry]

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

What would be an appropriate forum for such a discussion?  Certainly the few people on kde-frameworks-devel who showed any interest in the topic were in favour of the change.  kde-packagers, maybe?

A quick look at my /usr/share/applications suggests that only KDE software uses a subdirectory.  Other software seems to use filename prefixes (like gnome- and xfce-) when the software has a generic name (gnome-disks, xfce-settings-manager), but no prefix at all otherwise (Thunar and evolution, for example, have no prefix).  Given how my distro (Archlinux) does things, these almost certainly reflect the upstream decisions of those projects.


- Alex


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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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