Re: 3rd party .desktop files

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 22Jan2002 07:29PM (-0500), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com> writes: 
> > What the heck is the story with 3rd party .desktop files? Can we really
> > expect ISV's to have to manually create their .desktop file? because if
> > the answer is 'yes' then that sucks and we really should be thinking
> > about doing something about this for GNOME 2.0 :)
> 
> You could make a "desktop file authoring tool" but don't you think
> it's overkill for a 10-line Key=value file?
 
Proprietary ISVs love that sort of thing.

 - Maciej