kde4support: kstandarddirs_unittest fix

Alex Merry kde at randomguy3.me.uk
Fri Dec 27 11:22:57 UTC 2013


On 27/12/13 11:04, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> On Monday 23 December 2013 14:51:19 Alex Merry wrote:
>> Actually, I think we should just install application files directly in
>> share/applications. (ie: change the value of XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR in
>> KDEInstallDirs.cmake).  It makes everyone's lives more difficult to have
>> subdirectories (as I discovered while creating and implementing the
>> MPRIS2 spec - how do you tell applications how to find Amarok's desktop
>> file: "amarok.desktop" won't work, because it's not in
>> share/applications, but "kde4-amarok.desktop" or "kde/amarok.desktop"
>> requires knowing something about the buildsystem magic that installs the
>> desktop file).
> 
> Definitely something which would need a closer look. I feel that wouldn't help 
> for co-installability though.

Co-installable applications means versioned binary names, at which point
it's easy enough to do versioned desktop file names.  But I was under
the impression we didn't care about co-installable applications.

Alex




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