kde5 in [app .desktop file install] path

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 11 February 2014 21:29:24 Alex Merry wrote:
> On 11/02/14 20:09, David Faure wrote:
> > On Monday 10 February 2014 11:30:46 Alex Merry wrote:
> >> On 09/02/14 23:55, Nicolas Lécureuil wrote:
> >>> ./kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs.cmake:_set_fancy(XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR
> >>> "${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/applications/kde5"   "The XDG apps dir")
> >> 
> >> Personally, I'm still of the view that XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR should just
> >> be ${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/applications; did we ever reach a conclusion
> >> on that?
> > 
> > Ah right, I said "this has annoyed me in the past too", so I am rather in
> > favour of it.
> > 
> > Thinking out loud: with the current efforts in making things
> > co-installable, I wonder... it'll make .desktop files clash between kde4
> > and kde5.
> > Already solved for kdelibs4 (by renaming the two desktop files in KF5's
> > kio), though, so maybe we're fine, if co-installing apps isn't wanted.
> > Jonathan: it's not, right?
> 
> Well, if you want to co-install apps, you need to rename the binaries,
> so renaming the desktop files at the same time is fine.  

True.

Which are are doing for "apps" that conflict with kde-runtime, but there 
aren't many that are user-visible, maybe only khelpcenter.

> But even if that were not the case, I don't see why there'd be a clash.
>  kde4 apps install to share/applications/kde4, kf5-based (well,
> actually, e-c-m-based apps) to share/applications.

Well, no, of course, but that's just benefiting from kde4 being namespaced, 
i.e. it means kf5/kf6 clashing in the future.

However I agree. Renaming the binaries and renaming the desktop files goes 
together, so no need for a subdir.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5