On Tuesday 14 August 2012 15:35:05 Kip Warner wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 14:21 +0000, David Faure wrote: > > You could try a .directory file with > > [Desktop Entry] > > Icon=foo.png > > > > (well, an icon from the icon theme would probably work better than a > > relative one, not sure, try that first) > > Hey David. I took a look through the fd.o spec for Desktop Entries and > there isn't much written on the directory type. But when I created a > foo.directory file, I noticed my Xfce shell manager (thunar) actually > displayed the extension, as opposed to .desktop files where it > completely hides the extension and gives a user friendly name.
Misunderstanding. I didn't mean "foo.directory", but ".directory". As the entire filename. That makes the file hidden, too, by default, which is exactly what you want. > So my questions then are two. First, is the .directory type supported by > any desktop manager at present? Yes, if you name the file correctly :-) > Second, if I understand correctly, the following minimal dumped in the > root directory of a mountable volume should be sufficient to display an > icon for the user's volume manager, where supported? > > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Type=Directory > Version=1.0 > Name=Some Volume > Icon=Icon.png That's the idea, but whether it works correctly is for you to confirm :-) -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
