kde4support: kstandarddirs_unittest fix
Kevin Ottens
ervin at kde.org
Fri Dec 27 11:30:49 UTC 2013
On Friday 27 December 2013 11:22:57 Alex Merry wrote:
> 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.
Ah gotcha... stupid me, it's for applications only of course. Then yes, looks
like we don't need to deal with that indeed.
Regards.
--
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
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