Summary: | KDE .desktop files and MIME bindings not recognized by other apps | ||
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Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs | Reporter: | Michal Witkowski <neuro> |
Component: | kdecore | Assignee: | kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | arthur, aseigo |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 4.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Unlisted Binaries | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Michal Witkowski
2009-04-12 16:53:00 UTC
it's to allow applications from different versions of kde to be installed side by side without renaming every .desktop file according to the version of kdelibs it uses. the menu spec (http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html) doesn't specify whether or not subdirectories are allowed in applications/, however update-desktop-database does descend into subdirectories so it's evidently supported. either way, this absolutely is a downstream issue. if they aren't including those entries in their mimetype database, that's a bug in the packaging. on my system, kde4/ isn't the subdir in applications/ either :) |