Identifying desktop menu items

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 24 April 2003 11:39, Joseph Wenninger wrote:
> Am Don, 2003-04-24 um 10.08 schrieb 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.
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> > 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.
>
> That's what I do in konqueror's sidebar. The first time it is opened it
> copies the system wide entries to the user's share hierachy
> (.kde/share/apps/konqsidebartng/entries) after that only those entries
> are used and I provide a menu entry "rollback to system defaults" for
> resyncing/restoring (modified) system default entries.

The new XDG menus should make this actually less necessary since the .desktop 
files are more likely to stay in place (under $prefix/share/applications) 
since menu's can be rearranged without moving them. Unfortunately we will 
only be able to benefit from that once the transition phase has been 
completed, which can take a few years. (*.kdelnk files anyone?)

Cheers,
Waldo
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