#6 .desktop file validation

[Pino Toscano]

The kdiff3.desktop file, used for showing KDiff3 in XDG menus (like KDE's, GNOME's, XFCE's) is not totally compliant, as executing desktop-file-validate on it shows. Furthermore, specifies no categories, so it could be not shown at all (or in some "lost+found" category).

The attached patch fixes the following problems:
- removes the deprecated %m marker from the Exec key
- renames the non-standard KDE-specific DocPath key to X-DocPath, as changed with KDE 4
- adds a list of two categories, "Qt" (as it for sure a Qt application) and "Development" (being a mostly-development tool)

References:
- http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
- http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

[Pino Toscano]

.desktop fix

[Lukas Jirkovsky]

I'd love to see this patch in trunk too. I looks terribly when there is "Lost and Found" in menu where only one application is.

[Ori Avtalion]

According to freedesktop's specification ( http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html ):

The "Qt" category is used for apps based on Qt libs, but since kdiff3 can optionally use KDE libs (and does in most distros), maybe "KDE" is a better category.

These .desktop files are also invalidated. The "UTF-8" key needs to be removed:
kdiff3plugin-QT4/kdiff3_plugin.desktop
kdiff3plugin-QT4/kdiff3plugin.desktop

(I'd attach the patch, but sf.net doesn't allow that)

[Anonymous]

Why no add both, KDE and Qt to the categories?

Categories=Qt;KDE;Development;