Le samedi 11 novembre 2006 à 12:33 +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit :
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 12:08:18PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > 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 ?

These are legitimate extensions to the standard, but I don't know where
they are documented.

Anyway, I fail to see how it is relevant to this bug. We are talking
about Debian menu entries, not .desktop entries.

> > 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.

Isn't the purpose of these entries to be able to switch of window
manager on the fly?

> 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,
-- 
Josselin Mouette                /\./\

"Do you have any more insane proposals for me?"

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