desktop-file-install for all desktop files?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 09:44 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 22 December 2006 10:05, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >> No, the guidelines are simply wrong here.
> > 
> > Matthias, after the break, would you be willing to put in some time to
> > help us revamp this part of the guidelines?
> 
> Help/clout would be appreciated.  I, too, would prefer that the --vendor
> usage be not mandated (ie, be optional at most).  Unfortunately, since the
> fdo menu spec (strongly?) recommends it's usage, it's unclear to many in
> the PC how best to tackle that.
> 
> We made some progress on this recently, see:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DesktopFiles

One (perhaps) very minor point about desktop files. Before packaging for
fe I used to create the .desktop file with a cat << EOF statement in the
spec file. Now I'm using a separate desktop file as suggested. The thing
I can't (easily) do that I was doing before was to include the full path
of the executable by using a %{_bindir}/name statement in the inline
desktop file. That ensures that the menu starts what you actually think
you are starting and not whatever is first in your PATH that matches
that name.

-- Fernando