On Saturday, 2012-06-30, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:28 AM, jupiter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for asking a simple quesiton, I am new to the freedesktop. I > > have read the latest spec, but still not clear if I can put > > application *.desktop to different locations such as > > /usr/local/application1/application1.desktop, > > /usr/local/application2/application2.desktop, etc.. If it can, what I > > should to do to make those applications listed in desktop based on > > user ID or group ID? Appreciate any helps. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Jupiter > > /usr/local/share/applications is for *.desktop files that appear in > every user's menus. > $HOME/.local/share/applications is for *.desktop files that appear > only in that particular user's menus. > Both have to have a flat structure (no further subdirectories). > No per-group-ID *.desktop files are possible.
Not with default locations but of course one could have additional directories, e.g. one per group that needs differentiation, and add that directory to the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable for all users of those groups. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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