On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 12:08:18PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 11 novembre 2006 à 11:13 +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 10:14:38AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > I don't think that's a problem with the freedesktop standard, although I > > > agree it should be extended to support them. Currently, xsessions are > > > defined by .desktop files put in /usr/share/xsessions. > > > > How are they defined ? Where are the spec? > > They are standard .desktop files, only their location is different. They are not, they include lines like [Window Manager] SessionManaged=true which are not standardized. Where are they documented ?
> We can either be strict about them, asking them to implement the XSM > protocol, or simply ask the maintainer to be reasonable about the window > manager being usable as a standalone environment - which e.g. metacity > and kwin are not. And while I don't know about twm enough, I'm 100% sure > these two shouldn't appear in the options proposed by GDM. Actually, kwin does not provide a menu entry, and I would suggest metacity to do the same. I think that would address this bug. I agree that window managers that are unable to start applications by themselves (even if only a X terminal) must not be in the debian menu, because users are then stuck with a non-functionnal environment. So I suggest to reassign this bug to metacity requesting the file /usr/share/menu/metacity to be removed. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large blue swirl here.
