[Fwd: Location of autostart files]

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Terça-feira 23 Junho 2009, às 12:01:20, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> I believe this is the right place for this proposal, so I'm
> forwarding it here.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Best,
> Emilio
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Location of autostart files
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 19:51:27 +0200
> From: Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>
> To: GNOME Desktop Devel <desktop-devel-list at gnome.org>
>
> Hi all,
>
> autostart files shipped by GNOME programs used to reside
> in /usr/share/gnome/autostart. Now, I’m finding more and more of them
> in /etc/xdg/autostart. This is a problem for a few reasons.
[snip]

The spec (http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-
latest.html) requires this to be a XDG_CONFIG directory. Searching the mailing 
list archive turns up these messages:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-September/006945.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-October/007004.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-March/006190.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-February/006167.html

The last one seems to be the only reason why CONFIG was chosen over DATA, 
whereas the second-to-last email indicates that the issue wasn't discussed too 
much.

Interestingly, KDE 4 continues to install .desktop files to 
$KDEDIR/share/autostart (which matches $XDG_DATA_DIRS/autostart) with the 
proper OnlyShowIn for the KDE infrastructure. However, there are still some 
files without OnlyShowIn=KDE which have X-KDE-autostart-condition.

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