Extending the Desktop Entry spec for static app actions

Peter TB Brett peter at peter-b.co.uk
Sun Dec 18 17:33:00 PST 2011


Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giovanni at gmail.com> writes:

> It seems that we reached a consensus on this feature, and comments have
> cooled down, so here's the actual patch against current git of
> xdg-specs.
> If this is approved, I'll prepare a patch for desktop-file-utils.
>

I was quite disappointed that this spec doesn't also include some way
for applications to dynamically modify the actions they publicise via
the application launcher (for example, a game client being able to show
the last N servers that were used, or a chat client the top online
contacts).

                   Peter

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Peter Brett <peter at peter-b.co.uk>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre



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