[New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Mon Jun 8 18:24:25 PDT 2009


On Monday 08 June 2009, Manu wrote:
> Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > Just drop a
> > desktop file in /usr/share/Thunar/sendto and you are ready to go. I
> > don't know a file manager that offers similar functionality and IMO this
> > should be a standard feature across all desktops
>
> +1
>
> IMHO, panel menus should follow the same sub-directory method so
> that it's not needed to use a menu editor, just browse sub
> directories with a file manager and copy/move desktop
> files to any other standard or custom sub-category folder.

been there, done that, got the t-shirt. 

this is what we had before the current system, which in turn was implemented 
due to inherent limitations with "it's a directory structure" approach (mostly 
related to third party additions).

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