Identifying desktop menu items

[David Faure]

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On Thursday 24 April 2003 07:17, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> What the GNOME panel does is always create a copy of the desktop file
> for launcher buttons (the copy has a random mkstemp-style name).  This
> also accomodates user edits to the launcher and avoids breaking the
> launcher if an upgrade moves or renames the .desktop file.

Yes, I think this is the best solution. I've seen too many kicker launcher buttons
be broken by an upgrade of KDE (new .desktop files) or by switching on or off
the "mandrake menus" (totally different set of .desktop files). Much better have
a copy of the .desktop file that kicker can use.

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