Unity & OnlyShowIn

[Michael Terry]

Hello, Desktop folk!

Currently, Unity pretends to be GNOME in some ways.  Unity is a 
registered XDG environment 
(http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apb.html 
<http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apb.html>) but no 
tools look for its value, and few .desktop files use it.

It would be useful for various reasons (my immediate concern is only 
showing one date & time control center panel) to be able to write 
.desktop files that say OnlyShowIn=Unity.  This is bug 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/803519 .

So there's several tools that need to support that.  But before I patch 
those, I'd like most of the GNOME .desktop files to read 
"OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;" instead of "OnlyShowIn=GNOME;".

I've done a few (nautilus, gnome-control-center), but I'd appreciate if 
when ya'll do an upload (say, for 3.1.x upgrades), you could take a few 
minutes and patch the .desktop file too.  Additionally, send it upstream 
to GNOME.

You can see examples in the bugs and patches linked to from 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/803519

Then later (maybe next week), I can patch gnome-menus to respect the key.

Thanks!
-mt
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