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david.hagood at gmail

Apr 7, 2007, 2:23 PM

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Can .desktop files live under /home/user?

I'd like to create a couple of ".desktop" files describing applications
(so that I can add them to the simple launcher applet), but I'd really
rather they live under /home/user/<mumble> rather than /usr/share.

Is there a directory under /home/user the system searches for
applications?

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danny_milo at yahoo

May 5, 2007, 3:23 AM

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Re: Can .desktop files live under /home/user? [In reply to]

Hi,

On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:23:10 -0500, David Hagood wrote:
> I'd like to create a couple of ".desktop" files describing applications
> (so that I can add them to the simple launcher applet), but I'd really
> rather they live under /home/user/<mumble> rather than /usr/share.
>
> Is there a directory under /home/user the system searches for
> applications?

Ideally:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
>$XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.

So try put it into "~/.local/share/applications/".

I say "ideally" only because I didn't try it out yet :-)

cheers,
Danny

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eero.tamminen at nokia

May 6, 2007, 11:57 PM

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Re: Can .desktop files live under /home/user? [In reply to]

Hi,

ext Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> I'd like to create a couple of ".desktop" files describing applications
>> (so that I can add them to the simple launcher applet), but I'd really
>> rather they live under /home/user/<mumble> rather than /usr/share.
>>
>> Is there a directory under /home/user the system searches for
>> applications?
>
> Ideally:
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
>> $XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used.
>
> So try put it into "~/.local/share/applications/".
>
> I say "ideally" only because I didn't try it out yet :-)

If the device doesn't properly implement the Linux desktop
standard, please file a bug.

- Eero
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david.hagood at gmail

May 7, 2007, 5:32 AM

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Re: Can .desktop files live under /home/user? [In reply to]

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 09:57 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote:

> If the device doesn't properly implement the Linux desktop
> standard, please file a bug.

It does not:

https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1303

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