* Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070118 14:28]: > However, I also agree that it is boring and error-generating to maintain > menu entries in two separate files in separate formats. The .desktop > format has one great advantage: it supports internationalisation.
Which the Debian menu support since before freedesktop even started to exist. (It was a bit limited as it was written in the thought to generate seperate menus for each language and only later get the support to put them all in one file easily as it is needed to generate .desktop file, but that is quite old stuff, too). Same by the way with not showing some entries in some programs. On the one hand it allows to add new types for stuff only applicable to special menus (like fvwm-modules only to be shown in fvwm and so on). And also supports to mark some entries to not show up in some programs. KDE for example used this to not show entries in the Debian menu that already were in their special menu. Don't know what they currently do. I personally do install neither Gnome nor KDE nowadays and let users only choose between the working solutions. Gnome and KDE got so broken by design and "not-invented-here, there must be an inferior solution we can choose" that it just got too much hassle support it. And just to repeat myself over the years: Please do not abuse the term userfriendlyness to solicit solutions only fitting to some hypothetical users. If you do not want people confused about different programs for the same task, don't install the other programs. And if there are different programs needed by different users, make all of them visible. The only thing confusing people more than too many programs for a task in my experience are different menus in different environment so one pal/colleaque suggesting the one sm/wm and another pal/colleaque showing them some program in their wm and they cannot find it in their account, though it is the same computer... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
