On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:45 +0100, Marco Martin wrote: > On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: > > We'd like to suggest an additional key for .desktop files that lists the > > IDs of Status Notifier Items that an application exports. This will > > allow us to better match SNI items when we are using them as quicklists, > > as errors are very embarrassing ;) For this key we're suggesting: > > X-KDE-StatusNotifierItems which would be a list of strings. > > I think I like this. > this goes well with our idea of merging the taskbar and the status notifier > item as well. > > could still be a bit error prone, but i can't think of more automatic ways. > it > could also be done on the other way around, by having a list of desktop file > paths as a property of the notifier item, but wouldn't be better I think...
Yeah, it's not impossible to have errors. We hope that distro's would
be able to police that some though (and distro patch appropriately).
Perhaps a "naming guide" would be appropriate so there is less conflict?
WRT the desktop file being a property I like that too. The only caveat
is that with libindicate we did that, and we've gotten a surprising
amount of push back from developers. I'm really unclear on why, but
they don't like having the path to the desktop file in their code. I
honestly think they're being irrational, but just to let you know there
is some concern there.
--Ted
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