I'd like to discuss the idea of getting rid of vendor prefixes for desktop files in Fedora. Right now, we install desktop files with a mixture of vendor prefixes: gnome-, fedora-, redhat-, nothing. These prefixes really add no value, and cause actual breakage, since Fedora is (afaik) the only distro adding vendor prefixes, so we are the ones that get bitten by upstream changes that don't take vendor prefixes into account. The recent breakage that made me write this mail is that the new gnome-session in rawhide has a list of mandatory session components stored in gconf, and one of these components was 'nautilus', so it went looking for nautilus.desktop - which doesn't exist, since we ship gnome-nautilus.desktop. Another problem caused by these prefixes is that overlaying a self-built gnome, e.g. a jhbuild tree on top of a fedora installation gives you everything doubled in the menus. Once with a vendor prefix, and once without, instead of the indended effect of the self built tree hiding the installed desktop files. Thus, I'd like to propose that we change the packaging guidelines to stop recommending the addition of a vendor prefix, and remove existing vendor prefixes in F10. This will cause a mild one-time pain for existing users with customized menus. We can probably discuss ways to avoid that. Comments ? Matthias -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
