Adding new key Classification to desktop-entry-spec

Genghis Khan genghiskhan at gmx.ca
Thu Jan 8 21:52:38 PST 2015


Hallo,

I guess the following idea will be rejected.

The purpose of key Classification is for Default Applications
management software to recognize what type of application a desktop
file represents.  Classification key can have several values, for
example: Classification=FileManager;WebBrowser; for software that are
both a file manager and a web browser, such as Andromeda.

Such key would be convenient for software like Preferred Applications
of Xfce, which has a too big list of Xfce-specific desktop files called
helpers: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/tree/exo-helper/helpers

You thoughts, please.

Regards,
  --GK


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