Proposal for ExecComment field inside .desktop files

[David Faure]

On Sunday 13 November 2005 15:59, milosz derezynski wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> I'd like to propose an addition to the .desktop file spec.
> 
> My proposal is a key of the name "ExecComment" in the main [Desktop]
> section.
> First just an example:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=BMPx
> Comment=Play music
> TryExec=bmpx
> Exec=bmpx
> Icon=bmpx.png
> ExecComment=Play File
> ...
> 
> 
> The intention of this is so file managers can show instead of (using
> Nautilus as example here now):
> 
> [GTK STOCK OPEN] Open with BMPx...
> 
> something like:
> 
> [BMPx ICON] BMPx (Play File)

Seems sensible to me.

(Can't see the relation with the icon though, you could already show the proper icon :)

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).