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Month: February 2014

OnlyShowIn=TDE or NotShowIn=KDE?

From: "Darrell Anderson" <darrella@...>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:35:14 -0600
Recently Trinity was given a nominal public review in a blog:

http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2014/02/installing-trinity-
desktop-environment.html

The author offered a caveat:

"The Trinity-DE applications are only available through the Trinity-
DE desktop. While all the other applications installed on your 
system show up in the TDE menus, because of the way Trinity-DE 
loads its menus, if you log in with Xfce, the Trinity-DE 
applications will not be seen."

Most Trinity *.desktop files use OnlyShowIn=TDE, which causes the 
author's observations.

Should users of other environments (many window managers support a 
menu system too) be prevented from using Trinity apps? Probably 
not. The original motivation for using OnlyShowIn=TDE is conflicts 
and confusion in the Trinity and KDE menus because many apps share 
the same name. Perhaps NotShowIn=KDE is more apprpriate than 
OnlyShowIn=TDE?

I believe we should resolve this before releasing R14.

Comments?

Darrell