[AppStream] Introduction of "launchable" tag for metainfo files

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 09:42:36 UTC 2017


On 29 March 2017 at 14:49, Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net> wrote:
> I will change the spec so that desktop-application components with a
> <launch> tag don't have to have a .desktop suffix and must follow the
> reverse-DNS spec. If a desktop-app doesn't have a launch tag, it's ID
> must match the .desktop file.

If I have a file like: <id>com.hughski.colorhug-client</id> (without a
.desktop suffix, and without a <launchable> then surely the launchable
is the ${id} + ".desktop"?

Richard.


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