Christopher Martin writes: > On April 5, 2004 08:05 pm, Ben Burton wrote: >> IMO it's still worth encouraging it in Packaging.txt - even KDE >> users encouter the missing icons nowadays in the Debian menu, where >> all the KDE apps are duplicated (AIUI). And for people who don't >> use KDE (or GNOME?), unless we supply icons in the debian menu >> files, they won't have any icons for these KDE apps at all. >> >> Even if you're not adding icons to kdebase right now, it's still >> worth encouraging packagers of new apps to do it properly. :)
> While we're on the subject of good practice, I've also noticed that > the .desktop files that constitute the KDE menu are spread between > /usr/share/applications/kde and /usr/share/applnk. Both locations > seem to work, but is there a preferred standard? I've always used > applnk, but with 3.2 applications/kde seems to have become more > popular. AIUI, /u/s/applnk is only kept for backward compatibility. /u/s/applications is the new XDG ( read: freedesktop.org ) standard. > If there is a preferred place, then this might be worth > mentioning in Packaging.txt as well. AIUI, Packaging.txt is about packaging a normal, well-behaving kde app. These use the kde build system, and as such, should automatically choose the right location, no ? cheers domi
