[Libreoffice] libreoffice3.3-freedesktop-menus-3.3.1.noarch.rpm - what distri is this for

David Nelson commerce at traduction.biz
Sun Nov 28 01:04:16 PST 2010


Hi Christian, :-)

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:36, Christian Lohmaier
<lohmaier+libreoffice at googlemail.com> wrote:
> for all distros that support the
> freedesktop specifications/recommendations.
> Nowadays more or less every distro follows them/supports them, so that
> one should be usable on any distro. But at the time it was added to
> OOo, many distros did use their own magic to have their
> desktop-environments be aware of installed/removed applications and
> had their own way of registering mimetypes.
>
> The freedesktop.org specifications/proposal did standardize this to
> some well known paths and utilities to update that info.
>
> Affected are the icon-theme specification, the mime-types one and the
> one for the desktop files (application launcher definitions)

Thanks for that info. I've included a note about this in the revised
readme I've drafted.

David Nelson


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