RE: "proprietary" vs. polluting (was Re: propriatary question)

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

	If this is the case, why are the pixmaps in /usr/share/pixmaps (dont
get any ideas about moving these from this message :)

	If pixmaps are to be shared, why arnt desktop entries?

> On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> > I am hoping in the future to have KDE read desktop files (they are like
> the
> > same as .kde so it wouldnt be hard) ... then gnome, enlightenment, kde
> and
> > whatever can read the same files in the same place. A standard if you
> > will....
> > 
> > /usr/share/apps
> > 
> > to say that a .desktop file is a gnome file is not true...
> > enlightenment != gnome but enlightenment can read .desktop files as
> well....
> > 
> > if you want every program to produce .desktop files, you should have to
> > produce them only once.
> > Programmers have a hard enough time producing 1 desktop file, let alone
> .kde
> > files, and what have you... 1 file is all that is nessisary.
> > 
> > "being polite and clean" in this case means to have kde files, gnome
> files,
> > enlightenment files, afterstep files, window maker files, black box
> files
> > ........ you see where I am going.... Sharing this information between
> all
> > programs saves everyone alot of work :)
> 
> The trouble is that GNOME's apps directory doesn't just contain the
> .desktop files, but it organizes them as well.  I think it would be a good
> thing if as many environments as possible can use the same format of
> .desktop files, but I don't think we should force each environment to
> accept how we organize them.  This would mean that we need to keep our
> .desktop files out of the way, directory structure wise.
> "$prefix/share/gnome/apps" seems like a good way of doing this.
> 
> A non-GNOME but GNOME aware program could fairly easily locate such a
> directory, and extract .desktop files for its own use, and organize
> them how it wishes.  GNOME can do likewise with other programs.  Yes, we
> should all share information, but that doesn't mean we should share
> namespace as well.
> 
> -Gleef
> 
> 
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