KDE desktop integration

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Fri May 14 2004 11:46, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> hi,
>
>  I'm investigating providing menu items in the applications menu on KDE
> (without having root priviledges), and was hoping someone might be able
> to help with the following questions
>
> 1) is it always correct to write into .desktop entries into
> $HOME/.kde/applnk - or can this vary by distribution?

Better use $(kde-config --localprefix)/share/applnk instead.

> 2) is an upcoming version of KDE going to support the standards being
> defined on www.freedesktop.org?
>
> and this one is really probably something I've got to do myself, but on
> the off chance someone already knows...

KDE 3.2 supports the menu standard.

> 3) do existing versions of KDE and GNOME do any intelligent importing of
> each others menu items? (ie I'm planning to write entries into both
> areas at the moment on the assumption that they are independent)

KDE 3.2 and GNOME 2.6 should be able to if you set up either the appropriate 
env. vars. (XDG_....) or tell applications.menu where to look for stuff. See 
the menu standard on www.freedesktop.org for details.

Cheers,
Waldo
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