WTF⁈ ShowOnlyIn=GNOME

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 20 16:25:43 UTC 2007


Christopher Stone wrote:
> Why are tons of apps setting ShowOnlyIn=GNOME; in their .desktop file?
> 
> This does not bode well for KDE users.
> 
> # grep -i onlyshowin /usr/share/applications/*.desktop|grep -i gnome|wc -l
> 63
> 
> Sixty-Three apps which I have installed are only showing up in GNOME!!
> 
> What the hell for⁈⁈⁈
> 
> Is Fedora *trying* to cripple KDE or what⁈

No. Why do you want assume malice for potential bugs?

> 
> I dont see a single application using ShowOnlyIn=KDE

That's because you are looking in the wrong folder. Next time, try and 
be less melodramatic.

Rahul




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