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[Heinrich Wendel]

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 17:11, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 June 2003 15:40, sysop at heinospage.de wrote:
> > David Faure <dfaure at trolltech.com> schrieb am 11.06.2003, 15:16:05:
> > > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 15:13, you wrote:
> > > > I like this idea, I added also BinaryPattern, MapNotify,
> > > > InitialPreference, Protocols, Extensions, as they also seem to be KDE
> > > > specific.
> > >
> > > No... I didn't mention those since they are not used anymore.
> >
> > I just did an egrep -ir "(mapnotify|binarypattern)"
> > /usr/kde/3.1/share/applnk/ and got a bunch of files that still include
> > them , so i'll move only protocols and extensions to deprecated.
>
> I'll fix those. I still think they should be marked as deprecated.
> There's no code reading those fields anymore - and there hasn't been for
> a very long time, so the presence in .desktop files proves nothing :)

That sounds OK then :) Maybe we should add InitialPreference to the official 
standard (take a look at 
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/xdg-list/2003-June/msg00023.html).

mfg, heinrich