Re: pkg-kde: commit - rev 90 - in trunk/packages/kdelibs/debian: . dh-make
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
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