Dan Armak wrote: >> GDM has had just its own Xsession for a long time iirc. I think most >> functionality provided by these other X* files are login manager (xdm?) >> specific. The one real issue is Xsession. > Can anyone comment regarding entrance or any other DMs? Yeah, I can comment - using e17 here. entrance (the CVS version) is broken :P and doesn't read/use any of them, you need to point it manually via ecore_config to the session file where you put all the commands you want to start. Also, its default config is broken for e17 because it points to /usr/bin/enlightenment while the actual binary is called enlightenment-0.17. Oh well, that's what you get with live cvs ebuilds. ;) The desktop files are a real mess: e17genmenu reads a couple of predefined locations automatically, otherwise you have to point it to an unexpected location manually if you want those desktop items added. Right now I have .desktop files scattered in: /usr/share/applications /usr/share/applnk/ /usr/kde//share/applications/kde (The last one is something I'd really like to get rid of completely.) I'm avoiding gnome apps as much as possible, but there's definitely a gnome-specific location for those as well. Benefit from this mess? Negative for me, captain. Please, standardize this. The same goes for icons locations - openoffice-bin installs png icons to /usr/share/pixmaps (?!), firefox-bin installs icons to /opt/firefox/icons, thunderbird-bin installs icons to /opt/thunderbird/icons which might seem right but allas nothing can find the icons in there and .desktop files are in /usr/share/applications anyway. There are issues w/ mime-types etc. as well, but this mail is getting long as it is, so leaving that for another one, perhaps. -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:jakub@gentoo.org GPG signature: http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;)