Desktop Specification 0.9.4

[Heinrich Wendel]

On Wednesday 09 July 2003 18:21, George wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:39:46PM +0200, Koblinger Egmont wrote:
> > - When I proposed about 2 weeks ago that having a Terminal=true without
> > an Exec should launch the terminal, Havoc suggested to rather have two
> > desktop files with OnlyShowIn fields. Let's suppose I want to use konsole
> > for KDE and xterm for everything else. I create a .desktop file for
> > konsole with OnlyShowIn=KDE; and one for xterm with
> > OnlyShowIn=GNOME;ROX;XFCE; but in this case I have to update this field
> > every time a new freedesktop-friendly windowing system appears. So I'd
> > rather see it possible to tell "everything except KDE" instead of
> > enumearting all of them. An obvious solution would be to introduce
> > the DontShowIn key. Other solutions might be OnlyShowIn=!KDE but this one
> > seems to be a little bit braindamaged to me. Any ideas?
>
> I like the DontShowIn idea, and it's pretty simple to implement too.  I can
> see other uses for this then just the terminal.  For example, suppose there
> is an app, that is replaced by some funky desktop functionality in desktop
> XXX, then using DontShowIn=XXX would make the XXX menus seem sane.
>

So how would you handle the case where both dontshowin and onlyshowin are 
given? should that be forbidden?

> { snap }

>
> George
mfg, Heinrich :)