Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Ticket #45


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03/05/10 07:38:20 (15 years ago)
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Antoine Martin
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  • Ticket #45 – Description

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    1 We filter out the ones that are not to be used in virtualized environments in load_desktop_menus.py, but when we launch a full virtual desktop it will use all the apps found in /usr[/local]/applications
     1We filter out the ones that are not to be used in virtualized environments in load_desktop_menus.py, but when we launch a full virtual desktop it will use all the apps found in {{{/usr\[/local\]/applications}}}
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    3 We need a way to tell those window managers what .desktop files to use...
     3We need a way to tell those window managers what .desktop files to use... and more importantly, which ones to ignore.
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    5 Maybe we can simply create a new $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS for the virtual desktops and set the environment variable before launching them?
    6 see [http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html xdg menu spec 1.0]
     5Create a new $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=~.shifter/server/virtual-desktop-menus for the virtual desktops and set the environment variable before launching them.
     6see [http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html xdg menu spec] and [http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html environment variables]
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     8We must create this local copy on first startup (which means it will go stale... sigh) and patch it to remove the entries we don't want.. (tricky - see #94)
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    810See also bug #43 (remove shutdown option from menus)