Extending the Desktop Entry spec for static app actions

Jannis Pohlmann jannis at xfce.org
Thu Nov 24 14:27:23 PST 2011


On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:03:08 +0100
Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giovanni at gmail.com> wrote:

> Il giorno gio, 24/11/2011 alle 17.56 +0000, Jannis Pohlmann ha
> scritto:
> > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:43:17 +0000
> > Peter Brett <peter at peter-b.co.uk> wrote:
> >> [...]
> > > 
> > > It would be nice to avoid a repeat of the controversy that
> > > happened earlier this year w.r.t. libappindicator/StatusNotifier
> > > and GNOME, and I think the best way to avoid that would be for
> > > the GNOME and KDE and Unity (and XFCE etc.) folks to collaborate
> > > and present a proposal *together*.
> > 
> > I haven't managed to read the previous mails properly yet but let me
> > throw in here that Xfce has repeatedly complained about Desktop
> > Actions being deprecated (for no particularly convincing reasons
> > AFAIR) because we found them to be very useful.
> 
> What specification are you referring to?

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.5.html#mime-types

This section is no longer present in recent versions of the desktop
entry spec.

Sorry for replying multiple times.

  - Jannis


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