Re: nautilus (Re: .desktop files and encodings)

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 2/26/01 2:25 PM, Navindra Umanee at navindra cs mcgill ca wrote:

> Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
>> It has come to my attention that we have a fairly serious
>> situation developing with respect to incompatibilities in
>> .desktop files. 
> 
> Also probably worth bringing to attention:
> 
> http://lists.kde.org/?t=98313923200014&w=2&r=1
> http://lists.kde.org/?t=98313977200026&w=2&r=1
> http://lists.kde.org/?t=98316001500003&w=2&r=1
> 
> Summary: It seems (according to Seth Nickell, Eazel guy) that Nautilus
> uses something completely different from .desktop files and us KDE
> guys are not too impressed.  ;)

Sorry. We (the Nautilus hackers) know this was a mistake, and we'll be
fixing it later. Please don't consider this mistake a long term "statement
of direction for GNOME".

    -- Darin