[Geany-devel] Patch for Feature Request #3481844

[Michael Hall]

I haven't tested it, but anything outside of the [Desktop Entry] section 
shouldn't cause any harm, and the X- attribute in that section should 
also be ignored by any environment that doesn't want to use it.


Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com

On 02/25/2012 08:05 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
> On 12-02-25 04:29 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
>>
>> On 02/25/2012 06:00 PM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
>
>>> 2) Is this a general-purpose change or a patch that only should be in
>>> Ubuntu? I mean, I don't know of any other distribution using Unity so
>>> I'm not 100% sure this should be applied "upstream"...
>>>
>> To my knowledge Unity has been successfully ported to both ArchLinux and
>> OpenSuse, and is in the process of being ported to Fedora as well. It
>> may not be as popular outside of Ubuntu, but it does exist in other
>> distros, so I'd rather get this upstream where everybody can benefit.
>>
>
> IMO, it's fine to add it as long as it doesn't cause any issues with
> non-Unity desktop environments. Have you tested it in
> Xfce/KDE/GNOME/etc. by any chance or are you pretty sure it won't harm?
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush
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