RFC: new OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn values: MATE and RAZOR

Pierre Wieser pwieser at trychlos.org
Sun Jan 15 04:26:10 PST 2012


----- Original Message -----
> 
> Slightly off topic, is there any consensus on how to detect current
> desktop environment?
> Previously a proposed environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP was
> mentioned on the ML, but there was no conclusion.
> Can we start a discussion on this issue again?
>
> [...]
>
> If you're not able to detect current DE, how can you apply
> OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn correctly?
> 
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Vincent Untz < vuntz at gnome.org >
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > MATE and Razor-qt people have requested two new registered values for
> > OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn: MATE [1] and RAZOR [2].
> > 
> > I don't see any reason to reject that. Any objection from people on
> > the xdg list?
> > 

+1 from here.

I feel a standardized way of detecting the running desktop is
really needed.


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