Bug#1004522: debian-policy: Proposing new virtual package: wayland-session
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:13:19AM +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 3:55 PM Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Du, 30 ian 22, 13:21:40, Stephan Lachnit wrote:
> > >
> > > I like the idea. Just another idea for the naming, about
> > > wayland-desktop-session?
> >
> > It's longer and Phosh is not exactly a "desktop" ;)
>
> Right, but then the description "a Wayland desktop session" and the
> file location (/usr/share/wayland-sessions/*.desktop) is also a bit
> off, right? I guess this depends on how one defines "desktop" ;)
>
> Actually, just out of curiosity: the folder is called
> "wayland-sessions", but the files are all called "*.desktop". Are
> there other possibilities than "*.desktop", and if so what is the
> difference?
.desktop is just a standard file format used to register applications
with desktop environment, see
<https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec/>
I prefer wayland-session over wayland-desktop-session.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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