[Fedora-packaging] desktop-file-install --vendor=... proposal, comments?

[Rex Dieter]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> For some reason that confuses me a bit.  The first line after the
> example says "we're going to talk about --vendor in the context of the
> menu spec", then the first item says not to use --vendor at all and
> the second item talks about KDE and --dir.

In the context of --vendor, using a subdir is (relatively) equivalent.

> Plus, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to know if the upstream provides
> vendor_id.

If the .desktop filenames are either of the form:
vendor/foo.desktop
or
vendor-foo.desktop
then upstream is providing them.


Does that help?

-- Rex