On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 02:23:05PM +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote: > Il giorno sab, 03/12/2011 alle 22.58 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi ha scritto: > > Yep. This is a pseudo-bug. Because of the way people have been > > interpreting the spec for .desktop files, all of these provide .desktop > > files where the name is "Terminal". So they're all placed on the same page. > > This could be fixed in the .desktop files (Judging from past experience, > > I think that's a losing effort). Or someone could code up some other ways > > of extracting and reconciling this information. There are other things that > > could be enhanced in this. For instance, there's currently no extraction or > > recording of information about applications that lack a .desktop file. > > That's wrong, as explain by Freedesktop menu spec. You should group > applications according to the desktop file id, which is the desktop file > path, minus /usr/share/applications, with .desktop stripped and with / > replaced by -. This way, gnome-terminal (which > has /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop) becomes > gnome-terminal, while konsole (which > has /usr/share/applications/kde4/konsole.desktop) becomes kde4-konsole, > and no conflicts are possible (otherwise, you would get a menu conflict > and/or a rpm file conflict). > Name, GenericName, X-GNOME-FullName, etc. are user visible strings and > should not be used as identifiers. > Except.. the URL is for a user visible string (just like a menu entry). At least, that's what I think the intention was. We can ask mbacovsk (CC'd) if that was in fact intentional. If not, feel free to change it. > > > As for repodata, you mention tags, but I can't find them here, in > > > primary, comps or other (and I don't see anything else in mirrors). > > > > > I hit a mirror and browsed around. Here's the one for the F16 x86_64 update > > repo: > > > > http://mirrors.xmission.com/fedora/updates/16/x86_64/repodata/pkgtags.sqlite.gz > > Interesting. In fact, the file exists, but only for updates repo, not > for fedora. Is there a reason for that? > (I'm looking at > http://mirrors.xmission.com/fedora/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/) > Not sure. Maybe one of the rel-eng's would know the answer to that. -Toshio
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