Bug 41112

Summary:	request for new OnlyShowIn environment value: RAZOR
Product:	Specifications	Reporter:	petr vanek <petr>
Component:	desktop-entry	Assignee:	Vincent Untz <vuntz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	account-disabled-20180731
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description petr vanek 2011-09-22 05:04:49 UTC

I'm one of Razor-qt team members. And now we see our userbase grow enough to get more attention we'd like to mark our special tools as OnlyShowIn: RAZOR to prevent confuse other DE users.

What's the official procedure to register new category, please?

About:

Razor-qt is an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It has been tailored for users who value simplicity, speed, and intuitive interface. Unlike desktop environments, Razor-qt also works fine with weak machines.

http://razor-qt.org

Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2011-10-10 02:47:19 UTC

I feel the project is a bit young, so I'm unsure about adding it to the list right now.

I'd feel more comfortable adding it to the spec when it starts being included in distributions (instead of being available though an OBS project): this is a kind of guarantee that the project will stay around.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a way to make your life more difficult; it's just that I'm careful when adding new environments to the OnlyShowIn registry.

Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2011-10-10 02:47:43 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> What's the official procedure to register new category, please?

Start a discussion on the mailing list and explain why the category is needed.

Comment 3 Jerome Leclanche 2011-12-23 07:10:46 UTC

Vincent, why is action necessary in the first place? Wouldn't it be simpler and a lot friendlier if DEs somehow defined their name somewhere publicly available, and passed that name as an argument to whichever app handles menus etc?

Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2012-01-24 07:16:26 UTC

Razor registered for OnlyShowIn in the spec, and change to desktop-file-utils pushed.

FWIW, I went with Razor instead of RAZOR since the Razor-qt website never uses uppercase like this.

Comment 5 Jerome Leclanche 2012-01-24 07:17:52 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Razor registered for OnlyShowIn in the spec, and change to desktop-file-utils
> pushed.
> 
> FWIW, I went with Razor instead of RAZOR since the Razor-qt website never uses
> uppercase like this.

Vincent, please see comment #3. Why is the DE name registration centralized?

Comment 6 Vincent Untz 2012-01-24 07:31:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Razor registered for OnlyShowIn in the spec, and change to desktop-file-utils
> > pushed.
> > 
> > FWIW, I went with Razor instead of RAZOR since the Razor-qt website never uses
> > uppercase like this.
> 
> Vincent, please see comment #3. Why is the DE name registration centralized?

To avoid conflicts.

Comment 7 petr vanek 2012-01-24 07:32:22 UTC

thanks for you effort. When we can expect desktop-file-utils 0.20 relase, please?

Comment 8 Jerome Leclanche 2012-01-24 07:35:32 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > (In reply to comment #4)
> > > Razor registered for OnlyShowIn in the spec, and change to desktop-file-utils
> > > pushed.
> > > 
> > > FWIW, I went with Razor instead of RAZOR since the Razor-qt website never uses
> > > uppercase like this.
> > 
> > Vincent, please see comment #3. Why is the DE name registration centralized?
> 
> To avoid conflicts.

Conflicts can be handled differently; there are not that many DEs out there, if a name already exists, it can be recommended for the DE to pick their site's hostname, eg if there already was a "Razor" before, razor could have picked "razor-qt.org".

Just an example.

Comment 9 Vincent Untz 2012-01-26 07:58:34 UTC

(In reply to comment #7)
> thanks for you effort. When we can expect desktop-file-utils 0.20 relase,
> please?

I'm waiting for a patch so we can validate desktop actions. So soon after that. (I'll write the patch myself if I have no news before FOSDEM)

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