Comments on VFolder spec

[Havoc Pennington]

Waldo Bastian <bastian at kde.org> writes: 
> The categories listed seem to be quite complete. I would like to propose the 
> following aditional catgories:
> 
> Education - Educational software
> 
> and
> 
> KDE - KDE based application
> QT - Qt (but not KDE) based application
> GNOME - GNOME based application
> GTK - GTK (but not GNOME) based application
> X - Graphical application not based on GTK or QT.
> Text - Text/console based application.

Those sound good. One I found today I'd like is "Screensaver".

> Should anything be said about the orthogonality of categories? E.g. the six 
> categories mentioned above are pretty much mutually exclusive.

It's probably worth noting when specific categories should be, yeah. I
don't think the implementation code should bother trying to enforce
anything like that though, do you?
 
> I don't like the approach that every shared standard that we come up
> with defines its own locations. In KDE we define eveything relative
> to $KDEDIR(S), if we can create something like $FREEDESKTOP_DIR(S)
> then we can spec everything relative to that and we don't need a set
> of env.vars for every spec that we are going to come up with.

How about DESKTOP_DIR?

Havoc