Le Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:04:09AM -0700, Bruce Sass a écrit : > > I also agree that automatic down-converting would be good, but think > that automatic generation of menus from pieces at package install time > would be better. Iow, build a <prg>.menu.common for every interactive > program and use <prg>.menu.[freedesktop|kde|gnome|some-de] for Desktop > Environment specific bits, then require the menu producers be able to > construct a menu entry from the pieces via infrastructure provided > routines.
As the .desktop format becomes a de facto standard, we are more and more in a situation where the .menu files have to be written from a .desktop file. In a system where the .desktop files used in Debian would be generated from the Debian .menu file, this would lead to a double conversion. If persons are willing to work on improving the Debian menu system, I would rather advocate using the .desktop format as a native configuration file. This way we could take advantage of existing information, and also contribute back our work to the the upstream developpers when a menu entry is created from scratch for Debian. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
