<div dir="ltr">We fully support this in GNOME. It seems like a quality-of-implementation issue in whatever file manager you're using. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Christof Arn <<a href="mailto:christof.arn@ethikprojekte.ch" target="_blank">christof.arn@ethikprojekte.ch</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi - I'm new here, please help me, if I do not post well. I like the desktop entry system very much. There is only one point, that drove me crazy, until i finally found that: If I use NoDisplay=true , then this .desktop-entry isn't shown when right clicking a file in my file browser and choosing "open with an other application". At <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html" target="_blank">http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html</a> I find still the following information that conflicts with my experience: |NoDisplay| means "this application exists, but don't display it in the menus". This can be useful to e.g. associate this application with MIME types, so that it gets launched from a file manager (or other apps), without having a menu entry for it (there are tons of good reasons for this, including e.g. the |netscape -remote|, or |kfmclient openURL| kind of stuff). I thought, "not display it in the menues" would mean only the standard application menues with the known submenues like "Settings", "Administration", "Graphics", "Internet", "Office" and so on - but would be shown when I right clicking a file in my file browser and coose "open with other application". But in my xfce this isn't the case. But it should be as the specs say. I don't know, if KDE or Gnome does show the "NoDiplay=true"-Entries when right clicking in a file manager. I found two old threads in this mailing list about the interpretation of NoDisplay: - <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-October/003423.html" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-October/003423.html</a> - <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-May/010396.html" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-May/010396.html</a> But if I see right, those issues haven't found a clear solution yet. I'd like to suggest to give a hint in the specs: "At the moment, some software doesn't show desktop entries at all, so they can't be lunched from a file manager." If software behaves exactly the opposite way as given in the specs, this is very confusing. Best regards, Christof _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> </blockquote></div> -- Jasper </div>