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Autore: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Oggetto: Re: [DNG] merged /usr breakage
Le 08/01/2022 à 20:40, Benjamin Riefenstahl a écrit :
> Hi Didier,
>
> Didier Kryn writes:
>> But the launchers are to be installed/uninstalled by every user in
>> their own ~/.local
> What happens, if you add another user after installation? AFAIU default
> launchers should be in a global place.
>

    We want to install files only under /usr/local, and, for
Freedesktop.org, there's no other global place than
/usr/share/applications. Full point (AFAIK). I agree with you it's not
very clever.

    Users could make their .local/applications be a symlink to
/usr/local/share/applications. This is not a standard and they would
loose the ability to have their own private entries in their
applications menu. I think very few users actually have private entries
in their applications menu - this is not the same as launchers on the
desktop. Therefore this symlink could be considered as a workaround: the
applications menu would only expose globally installed applications,
either provided by the distro or in /usr/local. It still has to be
tested; Freedesktop might forbid it as well...

--      Didier