Comments on VFolder spec

[Rizsanyi Zsolt]

On Wednesday 10 July 2002 21:04, George wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 12:19:22PM -0700, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This may be a good idea.  Basically it would then search (in addition to
> /usr/share/applications) all <prefix>/share/applications where <prefix>
> would come from FREEDESKTOP_DIRS.  (Btw, is there a need for two such env
> vars (DIRS vs. DIR ???)

DIRS is used for reading the desktop files. But for writing you need one exact 
dir. So for writing you use the DIR (the place where the new desktop files 
will be installed).

Zsolt