"kde5" or "kf5" ?
Alexander Neundorf
neundorf at kde.org
Wed Feb 20 21:47:15 UTC 2013
On Sunday 17 February 2013, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 16 February 2013 17:23:46 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > On 2013-02-16, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
...
> > > _set_fancy(XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR
> > > "${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/applications/kde5" )
> >
> > I'm also a bit unsure about this one. Sure it is nice to avoid path
> > conflicts with other applications hogging the same desktop file names,
> > but from the different end of things: if things does hog the same
> > desktop file name, the content of the file is probably going to be so
> > similar that everyone wants to know about it and ensure that the content
> > is different enough.
>
> Yeah, and this has always created compatibility problems IMHO (with other
> DEs, due to kate.desktop vs kde4-kate.desktop vs kde4/kate.desktop).
>
> Let's remove the /kde5 then.
>
> This leaves the "kde5" in front of "services" and "servicetypes". A subdir
> is necessary there, to separate kde4-based from KF5-based plugins.
> But IIRC Kévin convinced me some time ago to say kf5 instead of kde5.
> My thinking was "any app will want to install stuff there, so it's not kf5-
> specific", but this is about adding files for use by the KF5 kservices
> framework, so why not.
>
> Executive summary: it's "kf5" everywhere.
please have a look at the attached patch.
Ok to commit ?
Alex
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