getting rid of vendor prefixes for desktop files

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed May 21 02:21:08 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 21:04 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> Seems to me the simple answer is to just drop the seemingly useless
> notion of vendor_id. :P

Yes, vendor id turned out to just be a bad idea.

> What is the filename getting used for? Why are we keying on it?
> Something smells broken here.

Using desktop files as application database/registry is broken in a lot
of ways. But for better or worse, this is where we are...




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