Why are there duplicate desktop configuration files in /usr/share/applications/ ?

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Detlef Lechner <Detlef.Lechner at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Why does the Nautilus file browser display duplicate desktop
> configuration file names in /usr/share/applications/ , for example
> "Brasero"? Nautilus  displays also identical Size, Type, Date Modified
> and owner, but the sizes are different.
> 'T43:/usr/share/applications$ ls -l | grep brasero
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3160 2009-10-30 10:20 brasero-copy-medium.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3859 2009-10-30 10:20 brasero.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   504 2009-10-30 10:20 brasero-nautilus.desktop'

.desktop files are plain ascii you can read pretty easily - open them
up in your favourite text editor and see what the difference is...
I'm guessing they are for different actions displayed in different
places (right click etc)

Brian