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Houston4444 / RaySession

Session manager for linux musical programs
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desktop key #206

Closed grammoboy2 closed 11 months ago

grammoboy2 commented 1 year ago

Wouldn't it much better if there was just one key for the NSM Desktop file entry? One key is simple stupid. Two keys is also a lot for such a niche use case as NSM is. Only Carla needs multiple keys it seems, which I'm not sure about either. What's your opinion @Houston4444? Are you sure two keys are really needed and if so why exactly?

https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=25615

Houston4444 commented 1 year ago

Two keys is not a problem. I see use cases where X-Nsm-Exec can be useful (if the executable is different for NSM run, without having to add more .desktop files). However, I hadn't seen the messages of this github thread (strange, I participate), so, indeed, X-Nsm-Exec is not implemented in RaySession, but it could of course.

Houston4444 commented 1 year ago

Two keys is also a lot for such a niche use case as NSM is.

I still believe that it will not remain a niche use, I don't think there is any interest to use GNU/Linux audio programs without RS when user know how it works, except (maybe) for very little projects.

grammoboy2 commented 1 year ago

The question is: are two keys really needed. If one covers all, that's obviously the better option.

I think X-Nsm-Exec is actually the only key that is really needed. The application which lists the NSM clients, should then also check if the value of the key is not empty. If the key is there and the value is not empty, then it has / is build with NSM support.

I hoped you could explain me convincingly that two keys are a real must and why only X-Nsm-Exec is not enough.

grammoboy2 commented 11 months ago

I saw someone even commented on the nsmd fork github issue. Hm sounds like that guy knows something about it, ok then I rest my case.