Please support /var/lib/snappy/desktop as an additional desktop directory

[Michael Vogt]

Snappy installs desktop files that come from a snap into /var/lib/snappy/desktop/. It would be great if unity could be updated to look into this directory for additional desktop files.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

I'd suggest desktop files to be installed in /var/lib/snappy/desktop/applications, while /var/lib/snappy/desktop is added to XDG_DATA_DIRS.

This will make unity/bamf to see these .desktop files... The matching of those, might be a different chapter.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Will this make your life significantly easier? I don't mind, I am happy to change our code to use this new install location but only if there is value for you. In my ignorance I thought it would be an arbitrary dir you just define in the unity7.menu file.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Well, everywhere we look at .desktop files (BAMF, and unity app scope) we look for files that are available in each XDG_DATA_DIR/applications as it's the standard place for .desktop files.

So I think that it would be the best thing to do. This would mean that all we need is to have /var/lib/snappy/desktop/ as datadir or maybe /var/lib/snappy/desktop/{share,data,...}.

By just doing that, BAMF and app lens should be able to pick .desktop files. Matching them is a different job though.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I commited a branch that changes the xdg directory and adds its own /etc/X11/Xsession.d snippet. It appears this is all that is needed and I can close the unity task(?).

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

snappy (from Debian) is a fast compression/decompression library https://github.com/google/snappy