[Fedora-packaging] guideline for OnlyShowIn?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 17:52:45 UTC 2009


Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> > I thought I'd start on the packaging list first, any thoughts?
> 
> Well, let me turn that around, when is it ever appropriate to use
> "OnlyShowIn="? I can't think of a case where it would be appropriate,
> aside from some sort of KDE or GNOME Configuration utility (and by that,
> I mean "a utility for configuring KDE/GNOME").

Part of the rationale is that someone on a system with both KDE and
GNOME may not necessarily want to have two menu entries for an editor,
two menu entries for a calculator, two menu entries for a terminal, etc.

Bill




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