On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:09:56 -0600, Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:08:41AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > ... It only stands to reason that if both the KDE and Gnome
>> > desktop camps wish to formalize on the format that we should
>> > adopt it as well, if only as an extension of our menu system. We
>> > would have to generate .desktop files anyway, when Gnome and KDE
>> > move form their own native menu formats.
>>
>> You talk as if the whole universe of window managers is merely
>> gnome and kde.
> I understand how you might get that, but you have to admit that they
> are the most visible of the desktop environments. I didn't mention
> window managers specifically because I don't see the need to make
> the distinction in this case. The .desktop files has the same goal
> and focus as a .menu file -- providing a convenient interface to
> finding and launching applications, so let's keep that the focus of
> the discussion.
Part of the focus of this discussion is about the obstacles we
have facing a transition to .desktop entries. And this is one of them
-- until there exists a mechanism to convert .desktop entries into
things that the back-end WM's can grok, we are stymied (since we have
a system that works, however imperfectly, and dropping support for
these window mangers would be a regression).
The other part is, of course, teaching developers how to write
the .desktop menu item, and I for one, have never seen one.
manoj
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I hope the ``Eurythmics'' practice birth control ...
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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