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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:30:32 +0300
From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr>
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Subject: About .desktop file locations
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Hi all,

I've been browsing through the mail archive and the freebsd-gnome site, 
but I  can't seem to find an answer to this. I want to install a 
.desktop file for integrating an application into the gnome and kde 
menus. I see that installing it in ${X11BASE}/share/gnome/applications 
makes gnome find it ok, but I was thinking that perhaps 
${LOCALBASE}/share/applications would be more appropriate and cross-DE. 
Perusing the ports tree I see most gnome apps use the former, whereas 
most kde apps use some variant of the latter, like 
${LOCALBASE}/share/kde/applications. So my question is, do we have a 
"standard", DE-agnostic place for these files? Also, do I have to run 
update-desktop-database after putting them in there?

Thanks,

Panagiotis