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Bug 654041 - Respect XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
Respect XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-session
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Session Maintainers
Session Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-07-05 19:10 UTC by Michael Terry
Modified: 2011-08-12 08:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Listen to XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP (2.77 KB, patch)
2011-07-05 19:25 UTC, Michael Terry 		committed Details | Review

Description Michael Terry 2011-07-05 19:10:04 UTC 
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is a proposal (not even in an XDG spec yet, just discussed on the mailing list) to define an environment variable that declares which XDG-registered environment the user is in (e.g. GNOME, XFCE, Unity).

Relatedly, there is a patch to add support in gnome-menus in bug 653440.

I'll work on a patch to support it in gnome-session (which would be useful for non-GNOME environments like Unity that also use gnome-session).
Comment 1 Michael Terry 2011-07-05 19:25:16 UTC 
Created attachment 191357 [details] [review]
Listen to XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2011-08-12 08:34:08 UTC 
We only support cases where XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP doesn't change with time, so I adapted the patch for this.