[Gpe-list] gpe-irc .desktop file

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

D Marlin schrieb:
> Back in April I mentioned that I found some non-standard entries in
> some of the GPE application .desktop files, one of which was the
> Category "GPE" itself.  I submitted a request to freedesktop.org to
> add GPE as a category, but AFAICT that is not happening.  I did
> receive a suggestion that we could use X-GPE.  That is being used by
> some other desktops, and is acceptable for Categories that are not yet
> part of the spec.

that's a good idea. I guess we need to change the folder entries then as well.

>   -Categories=Application;IRC;GPE;
>   +Categories=Network;IRCClient;GTK;X-GPE;

This looks good so far.

> I do not know how the GPE category is being used, so I don't know if
> changing it to X-GPE will have any impact on the desktop display for
> functionality of this or other applications, but the changes seem to
> work for me.

It depends on the folder files shipped in the file system. I guess the best
solution would be to spend some time in updating the whole desktop.
There is matchbox-desktop-2 by now we should be able to use. I assume that we
have to change some session related stuff and fix minor issues, but the major
share of the effort should be to try it and identify the issues.

> If the above change is acceptable, I can submit a patch, or I could
> submit a patches to update the .desktop files for all GPE applications
> to bring them up to spec (at least up to the spec being used on my
> system).

Yes, please do so.

Greetings

Florian

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