autostart UI vs behaviour
Jani Monoses
jani.monoses at gmail.com
Thu May 4 13:50:01 CEST 2006
Hi
the autostart editor shows all .desktop files in the autostart dirs
even those which have for example OnlyShowIn:Gnome, and which are not
started by xfce.
The user may have the impression that since they are checked they should
run.
I see two ways to handle it:
1) autostart-editor checks the files' contents and does not show those
which would not be started anyway
2) let the user override OnlyShowIn. I am not sure if hidden=false
should be it or another setting, as the autostart spec does not allow
this (yet?). This is of course only needed because there are apps that
provide OnlyShowIn:gnome while it could run just fine in Xfce too
(gnome-power-manager, beagle etc.)
I think a combination of 1) + app writers fix their desktop files is the
cleanest way.
thoughts?
Jani
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