plasma-mobile and metadata.desktop files

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 08 July 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi...
> 
> today i started poking a bit more deeply into the plasma-mobile repository.
> this is the first in a series of emails as a result :)
> 
> a lot of stuff is written with QML and using Plasma::Packages. awesome :)
> however, the metada.desktop files in the packages are duplicated with the
> "proper" name (e.g. plasma-applet-somethingorother.desktop).
> 
> this is messy, error prone and translators will hate us. so i added a
> simple two line macro to the top level CMakeLists.txt file call
> install_metadata_file. you can now just do:
> 
> install_metadata_file(package/metadata.desktop
>                                      plasma-applet-appletstrip.desktop)

ah, great, that's very handy (i started to leave a single desktop file and do 
a copy instead in cmake, but never got around to finish all applets, a macro 
is cleaner)

> 
> finally, a question: why are the items in plasma-mobile/containments/
> install with a plasma-applet-foo.desktop instead of a
> plasma-containment-foo.desktop?

appletstrip robably should.
mobilelaucher as some others again is a containment just because needs to be 
top level... could be another candidate for that non-plasmoid package

-- 
Marco Martin