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.desktop files and security

.desktop files and security

Posted Apr 6, 2006 12:23 UTC (Thu) by erich (subscriber, #7127)
Parent article: .desktop files and security

they aren't as cross-platform as they should be anyway.

For example, KDE apparently doesn't support .jpg files as icons, which totally sucks for album art. Which is the only case where I have used .desktop files so far, to display album art as folder icon.


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