Bug 78348

Summary:	Kappfinder does not save .desktop files according to XDG spec
Product:	[Unmaintained] kappfinder	Reporter:	kdozer
Component:	general	Assignee:	Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel <hoelzer>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andrew.crouthamel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description kdozer 2004-03-24 03:42:34 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages
OS:          Linux

Applcations found using kappfinder are saved as .desktop files to

$KDEHOME/share/applnk/SubMenu/appname.desktop

The new XDG spec which is used by the rest of KDE (including kmenuedit) saves such files to 

$XDGDATA-APPS/kde-appname.desktop
(where XDGDATA-APPS==$HOME/.local/applications)

and updates the file

$XDGCONF-MENU/applications-kmenuedit.menu
(where XDGCONF-MENU==$HOME/.config/menus)

kappfinder should do something similar. The inconsistency resulted in me noticing Bug #53476 where kmenuedit didn't update desktop files created by kappfinder correctly.

thanks!

John.

Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2004-12-01 10:17:25 UTC

kappfinder has to be rewritten or dropped with KDE 4 anyway when this backward compatibility is dropped.

Comment 2 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-02 22:40:13 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years and I will be closing this bug.