IconTasks taskmanager changes

Anton Kreuzkamp akreuzkamp at web.de
Thu Oct 27 17:08:43 UTC 2011


On Wednesday 26 October 2011 21:22:31 Craig Drummond wrote:
> > I don't think that the normal user will be able to find the desktop file
> > manually in the filesystem. The experienced user can still add the
> > desktop-file easily per drag&drop (provided the applet supports it).
> > That said, I must admit that the creating the launcher without
> > desktop-file
> > doesn't work as well as I wanted, so I would also support your idea
> > despite my objections concerning usability :)
> 
> The user is prompted with a dialog showing the list of installed apps -
> this is basically a copy of the "Open With" dialog. The user does not
> need to manually find it in the filesystem.
> 
> Craig.

In this case it sound more sensible to me to find out why KServiceTypeTrader 
doesn't find the desktop files (TaskItem::launcherUrl()) and fix it. If I find the 
time for it, I can investigate it.


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