Xfce 4.2 : user's comments

[Sami Samhuri]

* On Fri Oct-08-2004 at 10:59:14 AM -0400, purslow at sympatico.ca said:
> 041007 Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > On 10/07/04 09:39, purslow at sympatico.ca wrote:
> 
> >> (2) desktop menu: in the generated part, there are  2  lines
> >> 'gwenview' & 'konqueror' w submenus 'Konqueror - set as tiled wallpaper -
> >> set as wallpaper' & 'Browse with Gwenview - Rename with &krename -
> >> Rename with &KRename': again no complaint, but something is not quite right.
> > KDE has some .desktop files that should be marked as KDE-specific
> > such that other DEs can avoid including them, but they aren't.
> > xfdesktop has a blacklist, but i need to add items to it manually.
> > if you can find the .desktop files that are generating these entries,
> > open a bug on bugzilla, and attach each .desktop file
> > (separate attachments, uncompressed, please).
> 
> no sign of anything called  ~/.desktop  nor  ~/kde3.3/.desktop  etc.
> if you can tell me just where the session manager looks for apps,
> i can search thro' the dirs involved to see what might be causing this.

KDE puts them in /usr/kde/3.3/share/applications/, Xfce's are in
$prefix/share/applications (/usr if you used Portage, /usr/local by
default otherwise).
 
> yes, we are a v multi-cultural city, but no i am using English (smile).
> one respondent was irritated that i suggested the word is German
> -- apparently, it's Dutch -- , but clearly it shouldn't be there.
> also to me, the repetition of the word 'settings' in the menu is clumsy:
> any user already knows they're all settings, as that is the menu's name;
> however, that's basically a matter of taste, not an actual typo.

You can modify those .desktop files to say whatever you like.

-- 
Sami Samhuri
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