Re: .desktop files

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
>> Seems, that nobody knows exactly?
There's supposed to be a standard location for .desktop files once everyone
switches to the freedesktop.org standard.  Unfortunately, I think neither
the GNOME nor the KDE in Debian actually has yet -- but they will in
future.

The standard is specified in several places, all drafts.
Start with the 'desktop menu specification'.  This specifies that files are
to be collected from:
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/desktop-directories/  (only for folders/submenus)

Here, $XDG_DATA_DIRS is actually a collection of possible directories --
defined by the 'desktop base directory specfication'.  The default value is 
/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/.

So this seems to indicate that a foo.desktop file should be installed into
/usr/share/applications/foo.desktop

Indeed, some programs are doing this already, I see.  :-)

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