Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 18:00:33 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r502236 - in head/x11-wm/hikari: . files Message-ID: <20190522180033.GA72606@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAD9iB3cbthtQNcx4h1J4HcyNk_Sr8zAoP4GzHF6H3gFeSzy%2BmA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201905212124.x4LLO2CL041911@repo.freebsd.org> <20190522074413.GA30970@FreeBSD.org> <CAD9iB3cbthtQNcx4h1J4HcyNk_Sr8zAoP4GzHF6H3gFeSzy%2BmA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:22:09PM +0200, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 09:44, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > ...
> > Why so damn complicated? What's wrong with DESKTOP_ENTRIES?
>
> I was considering DESKTOP_ENTRIES but it looked like it's only suitable
> for applications, not window managers.
I'm not fd.o spec expert, so I beg to be corrected, but it looks quite
suitable for both, at least I didn't find any explicit objection towards
window/session managers.
> I took a second look and as fair as I understand I can in fact use
> DESKTOP_ENTRIES. I just have to change DESKTOPDIR to
> ${PREFIX}/share/xsessions.
>
> Am I right?
I'd say you are; in unfortunate case our logic behing DESKTOP_ENTRIES
does indeed support applications only, IMHO it should be corrected or
augmented to support both usages.
As for Categories, I'd google what other distributions that install
files under ${PREFIX}/share/xsessions put there.
./danfe
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