Re: .desktop files and vfolders

at the risk of simply further proving my ignorance of all
things desktop-like, i'll add:

 > > 
 > > Hmm, I thought empty folders were skipped ?
 > 
 > The following setup results in an empty 'Scientific' folder
 > on the desktop:
 > 
 > $ cat /usr/share/matchbox/vfolders/Scientific.directory
 > [Desktop Entry]
 > Name=Scientific
 > Comment=Scientific applications
 > Icon=mbfolder.png
 > Type=Directory
 > Match=Scientific
 > 
 > $ cat /usr/share/matchbox/vfolders/Root.order
 > Utilities
 > Games
 > Scientific
 > Settings
 > Other
 > 
 > mb-applet-menu-launcher shows the desired behaviour of skipping
 > empty folders.


not for me, at least not all the time.  in addition to the
"Utilities" and "Other" menu entries (which contain panel apps,
and entries culled from /usr/lib/menus (with the debian-enabler
variable set), i get at least one extra, empty, menu item,
sometimes.

my entire vfolders directory consists of nothing but entries just
like Rene's "Scientific" entry above.  i consistently get an
"Office" or an "Internet" menu entry (but only one of them) from
mb-applet-menu-launcher -- which i get depends on which comes
first in Root.order.  putting other entries (e.g., System, or
Setting, or Multimedia) at the top of Root.order does _not_
necessarily make that entry appear in the panel menu, though i
can see no significant differences between the *.directory files.
i've only seen the problem with Office and Internet.

(there is a difference -- which probably isn't significant, and doesn't
change my observed behavior -- not all of the foo.directory files are
terminated with a final newline character.  thought i should mention it.)

paul
p.s. i'm running 0.8.2, direct from debian, on a mipsel system.
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 paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 68.4 degrees)