[Gpephone-devel] Gpe-applauncher 'redundant' application desktop files

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

WANG Gang RD-ILAB-PEK schrieb:
>     I've just seen that some application desktop files are removed from
> gpe-applauncher. That is a need to explain why we need these 'redundant'
> files:
> 
>     Since we provide a grid layout of the application icons, in which
> the tabs (each tab is described by a vfolder .desktop file) for
> different categories of application are replaced by one icon in the grid
> of our super tab, the former vfolders need to be treated as applications
> to be shown as an icon in our super vfolder. That's why we have
> 'duplicate' .desktop files.
> 
>     Indedd they are not identical: the .desktop files to be installed in
> PREFIX/share/gpe/vfolders are untouched, the .desktop files to be
> installed in PREFIX/share/applications have their 'Categories' set to
> 'SUPER'.

ah right, I should have explained this before... sorry.
I intended to change this mode so that there is no need for duplicated desktop
entries. That fixes the mix between folder and desktop definitions that causes
confusion if people do not use the grid layout but see the folder icons in a
separate tab.
Much cleaner in design is to handle the grid layout in explicitly creating a tab
only containing the entries defined by the vfolder desktop files. In addition to
this you safe time because you do not need to filter the desktop files that
actually contain folders.

Greetings

Florian

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