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[Alex Launi <alex.launi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 12/08/2010 03:42 AM, shuerhaaken wrote:
> Hi Conor
> 
> Does this mean that the appearing of the player as e.g.
> 'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.xnoise' on the session bus would be enough for
> registering a player? I like the idea of not having to use the extra
> dependency of libindicate.
> 
> If a user decides to not use the SoundMenu, the player will have to
> change the "X-Canonical-Indicator-Sound" value of the .desktop file. But
> for this, the player will have to gain root access rights! 
> How should this be done at runtime?

You would write the new desktop file in $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications,
which is usually ~/.local/share/applications. This is also how editing a
menu from the panel works.


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Alex Launi
Canonical Desktop Experience Team
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