[mpris] DesktopEntry shortcomings

[Alex Merry]

On Thursday 23 December 2010 15:48:20 mirsal at mirsal.fr wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Alex Merry <kde at randomguy3.me.uk> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:29:32 Conor Curran wrote:
> >> Why shouldn't it be the full path to the desktop file including the
> >> extension ?
> > 
> > For backwards compatibility purposes, I'd rather add a DesktopFilePath
> > property that operates as Conor suggests, and deprecate DesktopEntry.
> > 
> > Would anyone object to me including this in 2.1?
> 
> I'd rather go for DesktopFileName, and use a basename (with the
> extension) instead of a full path.
> (Otherwise, it moots the point of the directory cascade)

But what's the point in this, then?  Rather than muddying the waters with two 
properties that give essentially the same information (as in, you can get the 
value of one by adding ".desktop" to the value of the other), why not leave it 
as it is?

Alex
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