.desktop files for settings panels

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:01:10AM -0500, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
> >Sounds very good. Should the icon be in $datadir/pixmaps or in
> >$datadir/themes/default/32x32/apps/ or something?
> > 
> >
> my reasoning here is that the icons themselves aren't themed, and so 
> should go in $datadir/pixmaps.  if the directory layout spec deprecates 
> $datadir/pixmaps in favor of the icon theme hierarchy even for 
> non-themed icons, i guess we should use that anyway.  benny, you're most 
> familiar with the directory spec...  thoughts?
> 

Well, even if we don't provide themed icons, they are themeable, aren't
they? In that case I believe the spec states we should install them into
the hicolor theme, that is guaranteed to be available. 

> >We should have more desktop files, probably. At least things like xffm
> >and xfrun, and perhaps even panel, iconbox, taskbar.
> > 
> >
> that's true... i was thinking mainly about the settings panels, but some 
> of the apps should have them too.
> 
> >Ok, but we should request an XFCE category too (if the others have 
> >one...).
> 
> yeah, probably.  i'm not exactly sure how to go about doing that...
> 

Probably just send a mail to someone, or the xdg list. I'll look into
that.

> >>2) should "Gtk;" also be listed in the "Categories" string?
> >>   
> >>
> >Nah, perhaps for our 'real' programs, like xffm.
> > 
> >
> i'm just looking at other settings apps from kde/gnome, and they seem to 
> include Qt/Gtk.  i disagree with this, because i think the gui toolkit 
> used is a rather lame way of categorising apps (xfdesktop totally 
> ignores Qt/Gtk/KDE/GNOME for categorising purposes by default).  hence 
> my uncertainty...
> 

I agree with you 100%. For applcations it may make sense, because of
similar look and feel. I'd imagine if you use the menu spec you could 
make a menu.xml file that only includes gtk apps.

> >Some other stuff about the settings manager:
> >
> >* I'd really like to start using the icons Nikola posted a while ago (I
> >have them somewhere).
> > 
> >
> hmm... i feel like i vaguely remember this... need to look through my 
> archives.
> 
> >* All our icons should use the icon theme if possible.
> > 
> >
> even stuff like settings panels, for which there's only one non-themed 
> icon?  or are you suggesting that we should dig through exisiting 
> themes, either using a stock themed icon, or creating our own?
> 

Wouldn't that be nice? Even if we don't include the themed icons
ourselves, it would be nice to support it whereever possible, don't you
think? Or am I taking this too far now?

> >* All settings dialogs should use the same icon size in their header.
> >Olivier uses 32x32, so let's use that. At least the panel and xffm use
> >48x48.
> > 
> >
> huh, i didn't even notice they were different sizes until you just 
> mentioned it...
> 

Ha. Who said you were the only one allowed to nitpick about minor
details ;-)

	Jasper