Trash specification, version 0.1

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Thu Sep 2 17:57:52 EEST 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:51 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Thursday 02 September 2004 12:56, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:44 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> 
> That'd work too. I was suggesting [Desktop Entry] + Type=something
> because that's more consistent with what we (kde) do with
> Type=MimeType, Type=Service, Type=ServiceType etc., but those
> are parsed more or less together, whether trash info files are in a well-specified
> directory (we know what type they are before even opening them).

Well, adding a Type to [Desktop Entry] in a spec would require changing
the actual desktop file spec. (And it would confuse gnome apps that
detect desktop files by sniffing and have no clue what type=TrashInfo
means.)

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