Proposal: Inharitance for Desktop Entry Spec

[Dan Winship]

Vincent Untz wrote:
> Yeah, I've been hit by this in the past too. I believe it was already
> (at least partly) discussed, when talking about the autostart
> specification. Can't find the thread, though.

See the autostart-related threads in
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-October/thread.html
and
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-January/thread.html

In particular, this message, where Waldo points out how allowing one
.desktop file to inherit from another can cause problems:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-October/007003.html

(I came out of that thread convinced that .desktop file inheritance was
a bad idea.)

-- Dan