Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 18 July 2007 19:44, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Surely any proposal for replacing the menu system with desktop files >> has to involve generating menu files from desktop files for the benefit >> of programs that use the menu system and don't understand desktop >> files? > Eh, correct me if I'm wrong, but surely the way it works is that > install-menu and the various menu-method provided by window/desktop > manager packages to convert the set of menu files into the native menu > configuration formats of those window/desktop managers? install-menu > would now be improved to read .desktop files directly; there is no need > to convert them into .menu files first (and really no reason to convert > .menu to .desktop either). Yes, good point, although I'm worried that it's going to take a while to rewrite that code to convert .desktop files instead, and converting .desktop to .menu would give us interim backward compatibility. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
