[packagekit] PackageKit-gnome: saner icons usage

[Matthias Clasen]

On Feb 1, 2008 5:24 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Comments welcome.
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Using information from desktop files may make sense once you have an
actual _application_ installer, not a _package_ installer. Ie you'd
have to loose the 1-1 relation between list rows and packages. As
things are now, you are mixing information from the package (package
name) with information from some desktop file inside. What if there
are multiple
desktop files inside ?

Even in an application installer, naively using desktop files is going
to be problematic, with the sprawling misuse that this file format
gets, for screensavers, autostarting, desktop sessions, shortcuts, etc
etc. So whatever you do for extracting application information from
desktop files
has to be careful to make sure that it only uses desktop files that actually
represent apps, and should ideally offer a way for the packager to override it.