Re: .desktop in appmgr

on Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 02:04:43PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
>
> I would be inclined to do it the other way around, so you would say
> something like:
>
> Main: PIM IRC -Opie
> Media: AudioVideo
>
> or whatever, if you wanted to put both PIM and IRC (apart from Opie
> programs) into the Main tab, AV apps into Media, and so on. Also, I'd
> prefer to make the tabs more like filters than classic folders, so a
> program would show up in every tab for which it contained an eligible
> category, rather than just going into the first one. You'd still have
> an "All", which would allow you to select apps not categorised
> elsewhere.
>
Maybe rather than a single config file, each 'Folder' itself would be
defined in .desktop file. This way we can get localisation for folder
names, as well as defining things like folder icon etc.

This is kind of how gnome does it see, prefix/share/gnome/vfolders/*

  -- Matthew

 
Received on Sat Jan 04 20:06:06 2003