Confused by NoDisplay

[Jasper St. Pierre]

We fully support this in GNOME. It seems like a quality-of-implementation
issue in whatever file manager you're using.


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Christof Arn
<christof.arn at ethikprojekte.ch>wrote:

> Hi - I'm new here, please help me, if I do not post well.
>
> I like the desktop entry system very much. There is only one point, that
> drove me crazy, until i finally found that:
>
> If I use NoDisplay=true , then this .desktop-entry isn't shown when
> right clicking a file in my file browser and choosing "open with an other
> application".
>
> At
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/
> desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
> I find still the following information that conflicts with my experience:
>
> |NoDisplay| means "this application exists, but don't display it in the
> menus". This can be useful to e.g. associate this application with MIME
> types, so that it gets launched from a file manager (or other apps),
> without having a menu entry for it (there are tons of good reasons for
> this, including e.g. the |netscape -remote|, or |kfmclient openURL| kind
> of stuff).
>
> I thought, "not display it in the menues" would mean only the standard
> application menues with the known submenues like "Settings",
> "Administration", "Graphics", "Internet", "Office" and so on - but would be
> shown when I right clicking a file in my file browser and coose "open with
> other application". But in my xfce this isn't the case. But it should be as
> the specs say.
> I don't know, if KDE or Gnome does show the "NoDiplay=true"-Entries when
> right clicking in a file manager.
>
> I found two old threads in this mailing list about the interpretation of
> NoDisplay:
> - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-October/003423.html
> - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-May/010396.html
>
> But if I see right, those issues haven't found a clear solution yet.
>
> I'd like to suggest to give a hint in the specs: "At the moment, some
> software doesn't show desktop entries at all, so they can't be lunched from
> a file manager."
> If software behaves exactly the opposite way as given in the specs, this
> is very confusing.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christof
>
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  Jasper
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