several defects and enhacement-wishes

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 10/9/2006 3:43 PM, samo wrote:

>  ~- desktop: rm -rf .cache will remove positions of desktop icons.
> 
> To me, any user preference should not be put in cache-like place nor  
> overwritten / removed without user's will.

Agreed, it should probably be in ~/.config/.  Though 'rm -rf .cache'
sounds like user's will to me...  Please file a bug on bugzilla so I
don't forget about this.

>   - Desktop/*.desktop files: if u specify Enconding != UTF8, the item 
> becomes un-editable and the reported-before misbehaviour.

Then don't use an encoding other than utf-8.  What do you mean by
"un-editable"?  I'm not sure I understand what the problem is; perhaps
I'm just behind on my email as I'm not sure what the "reported-before
misbehavior" is.  Oh, wait, is this it?

>  - desktop: initialy i was able to create/edit/assign several .desktop
>    "shortcuts", and it was showing the comment while hovering
>    the mouse over the icon. Now no more comment, it shows "kind,
>    modified, size " triplet as with anything else, and
>    right-click + edit-launcher does nothing. Properties allow some
>    changes, but not the name of the thing...

I'm not really sure what you're talking about.  NEVER did the desktop
icons have any hover tooltip that showed a .desktop file's comment.
They have ALWAYS had the Kind, Modified, Size information (well, for a
while there was no tooltip at all, but after that).  Perhaps some other
application does this and you've confused them (maybe nautilus' desktop
view?).  I admit that kind/mod/size is not the most useful set of
information for every kind of icon, but I only have time to do so much.

	-b


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