Re: Initial work on a help API

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 19:12 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:29 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: 
> > With some GApplication work, we could get applications to read
> > something from their .desktop file. Then it could be explicit,
> > e.g. X-Launchpad-ID=.... You'd still have to patch applications,
> > but with a one-line patch to a data file instead.
> 
> I raised the point on the xdg list that I want to add application
> identifiers (of the "org.gnome.Foo" sort) to desktop files.  Michael
> Vogt has plans to make this data available in apt (by sucking it out of
> the desktop files).
> 
> We could go from application ID to package name (and from there
> launchpad ID) without the need to patch anything at all.

The only concern I have with that is that it assumes that
every application on your system is on Launchpad. But if
install some commercial application, not from the Ubuntu
repositories, it really should not have those Launchpad
entries in its help menu.

--
Shaun