Extension to standalone mode of plasma shell

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 11:22:19 UTC 2014


On Sunday 28 September 2014, Bhushan Shah wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> Since standalone mode for Plasma shell is merged [1]
> 
> I wanted to add one more extension to it, my idea is shell packages
> announce that they can be used as standalone applications in their
> metadata.desktop, like plasma-mediacenter shell package will define
> this in its metadata.desktop
> 
> X-KDE-ShellApplication=true
> 
> And there will be also one runner like plasmawindowed runner which
> will show plasma-mediacenter in search results.
> 
> opinions? is it good idea? If yes, I will happily to implement it.

It may work, but i'm not sure is really necessary:
if the shell installs in applications a desktop file that launches the proper 
commandline, it would appear both in krunner and in the start menu

-- 
Marco Martin


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