[distcc] .desktop file

Martin Pool mbp at samba.org
Tue Oct 14 04:22:26 GMT 2003


On 13 Oct 2003, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:

> 	                                   the "GenericName" field.
> 	                                   field to the "Name" field.
>  
> I guess it should be GenericName instead of Generic Name.

My mistake.  I think I copied from some other app which must have been
wrong.

> > > I would also change the .desktop file to the following:
> > > 
> > > 	[Desktop Entry]
> > > 	Name=Distcc Monitor
> > > 	Comment=Graphical view of distributed compile tasks
> > > 	Exec=distccmon-gnome
> > > 	Icon=distccmon-gnome-icon.png
> > > 	Terminal=false
> > > 	Type=Application
> > > 	Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
> > > 	StartupNotify=true
> > > 
> > > Unless some of the other key names offers functionality that I'm not aware 
> > > of. I'd like the menu-entries uppercase, as this is common practice for 
> > > Gnome.
> > 
> > I'd rather not.  

I see you dropped the TryExec, Encoding, and Version fields.  Why is
that?

> Ok, it's just that I think that's common practice in Gnome to have the 
> menu entries to start uppercase. 

The correct name is "distcc".  The name is case-sensitive, just as for
"GNOME".

-- 
Martin 



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