Desktop-file-utils 0.11 change

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 05:13:15PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:41:58 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 26 October 2006 10:26, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > > > On the other hand, I'm not aware of any
> > > > benefits from adding X-Fedora to every desktop file...
> > >
> > > This has always seemed like a useless fedora.us leftover to me.
> > 
> > I thought it was used in how the Gnome menus are actually setup in Fedora, but 
> > upon closer look (and discussing with our desktop folks) X-Fedora is 100% 
> > useless.
> 
> X-Red-Hat-Extras is useless, too. Does that make it a "useless Red Hat
> leftover"?
> 
> It is widely known that X-Fedora has never served any purpose other than
> allowing for a future desktop menu editing feature.
> 
> At one time, only X-Red-Hat-Base was needed to make a menu entry appear in
> the top-level menus, whereas everything else only appeared in the
> sub-menus.

I remember that there was even some kind request by Red Hat to not use
some of these and mangle the top-level menus, but I cannot put my
finger on it now. Probably RH7.3-RH9 era.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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