IMPORTANT: VFolder-based KDE menus

Martijn Klingens klingens at kde.org
Sat Mar 1 13:25:04 GMT 2003


On Friday 28 February 2003 01:16, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> - If your application is going to be released for use with KDE 3.2 or newer
> only, it is adviced that you install your menu .desktop file to
> $xdg_appsdir instead of $kde_appsdir/Some/Submenu. Typically it is enough
> to add xdg_apps_DATA = yourdesktopfile.desktop
>
> You mustn't do this if your application is supposed to be used with KDE 3.1
> or older, because these versions of KDE will not look in $xdg_appsdir.

Is there some kind of automake magic possible to do the optimal thing 
depending on the KDE version?

I know that automake supports some kind of conditional processing, but I have 
never tried to actually use it.

-- 
Martijn





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