Proposed change to desktop-entry-spec: make StartupWMClass a "string(s)" field

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 27 January 2015 14:10:25 Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> StartupWMClass usage should be considered legacy. In order to compute a
> mapping from window class to .desktop file, we need to read *all* files
> from disk, which is super expensive to do first thing on boot.

But the same is true when you want to find out which apps can handle a certain 
mimetype, etc. This is why we have binary caches for .desktop files in various 
implementations (and I'm still hoping we can get a standard one updated at 
install time, which Ryan Lortie was working on a long time ago...)

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5