Re: Namespacing desktop files

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 15:15, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Heya,
> A couple of us in Sun are involved in bringing GNOME to architectural
> review and going through some of the possible problems that might arise
> when GNOME gets introduced into Solaris...
> 
> Anyway, one of the problems was with the .desktop files. We [actually
> Nils] came up with the conclusion that they should be really be
> namespaced in some way [possibly according to which package they came
> from?], especially since there is a new plan to dump them in a central
> location and use George's new vfolder system on the menus.
> 
> The potential problems without this namespacing would be if 3rd party
> ISV's wanted to install a .desktop file without the fear of overwriting
> another .desktop file.
> 
seems a nice idea. If we're already doing this for IDL, .server, files,
it makes sense to also do it for .desktop files

cheers
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