On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:44:34AM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > 3) Eventually, GNOME will switch to xdg-menu but probably not the > > version in sarge. > > Right, the switch will be for 2.10. > > > > 4) It is rumoured that some distros apply a patch top GNOME panel > > to make it support xdg-menu, but Debian don't. > > Right too.
Any chance this patch to be applied ? > > So I look for help from someone with good knowledge of GNOME internal > > and patience with the Debian menu system to solve issue 2) and maybe > > issue 1). > > The Debian menu is only a submenu in GNOME and I'm not sure this is > worth spending time and efforts for something that's redesigned upstream > right now. Perhaps we should let it in this state for Sarge and work on > a menu improvement for sarge+1 with GNOME 2.10 ? This work (XDG menu support) is already done. For GNOME 2.10 it is just a matter of removing one conffile and adding a Depends. On the other hand, we should strive for the highest quality for our next stable release and working support for user (Debian) menu is quite a popular wishlist. For example, I received bug #280081 last week. I have already written a menu-method that produce a suitable vfolder-info menu. What need to be done is to integrate it with gnome-panel. If no change to gnome-panel menu code is performed, the question is whether the file /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users.vfolder-info can be 'diverted'. If users are unlikely to modify this file, this is an option, albeit ugly. I would note that I posted here only after failing to gather much support on debian-gtk-gnome. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
