regarding ServiceTypes=Daemon

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Sun Dec 21 15:25:12 GMT 2003


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On Sun December 21 2003 09:12, you wrote:
> Hi Waldo,
>
> Since you are one of the authors of the desktop file spec I have a related
> question for you:
>
> What does the Daemon entry exactly mean? What is the consequences of using
> it?
>
> I'm asking since
> *when ksycoca is updating its db it claims 'Daemon' is an unknown type
>
> * A couple of internal apps such as kaccess, kcookiejar, kmix_restore, kxkb
> has it. AFAICT atleast kmix_restore runs fine without it. To me, these apps
> are ordinary programs - what happens when they have the Daemon entry and in
> what way are they needed?

I don't think it has any defined meaning and I don't believe it is used for 
anything. I think they can be removed.

Cheers,
Waldo
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