RH BR74071 (Was: Configuring the Red Hat Linux desktop)

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Saturday 14 September 2002 10:03 pm, Owen Taylor wrote:
> I'm curious - are there particular reasons why you think that
> "strip kde-" approach is better than what I suggested in:

RedHat would actually need to add "kde-".

>  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74071
>
> of optionally being able to specify a canonical DesktopName
> in the desktop file?

Wouldn't you get the same name collisions in this canonical namespace then 
that you tried to avoid in the first place?

> Only application desktop files were renamed in our changes, not 
> service desktop files, so there is a extra expense in having
> to continually tack on "kde-" and check for that in addition.

You would only have to do that if the lookup with the name that was passed 
failed and the name didn't start with kde- already.

Cheers,
Waldo
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