* Sune Vuorela <nos...@vuorela.dk> [110419 09:41]: > On 2011-04-18, Bernhard R. Link <brl...@debian.org> wrote: > > Currently there is none of this[1]. I think it makes no sense to discuss > > if things should have desktop files or whether it makes sense to > > remove the old working system. > > what do you miss from the xdg specs?
The "Desktop Entry Specification" mostly describes the format, with some very short sentences about Name, GenericName and Comment. Categories only refers to the "Desktop Menu Specification" (which only handles OnlyShownIn and NotShownIn though not advertised here). The "Desktop Menu Specification" (which for the most interesting stuff to users like where things are again refers to the "desktop base directory specification" and now finally even got a link to that...) finally has in the appendix a list of "Registered Categories" and values for "OnlyShowIn" and "NotShowIn". Most of those "Categories" have a description of only one or two words (unless counting "a" then most have two or three). OnlyShowIn/NotShownIn only gives meaning. There is nothing that says when those should be used (or whether they may be used in Debian). Compare this to http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ Especially I miss something as easy to read and as complete in one place as "http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ch3.html"; and "http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ch6.html";. And in terms of policy I miss a better description of the Categories, better rules how Name/GenericName/Comment should be written and when OnlyShowIn/NotShownIn are to be used. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110419101301.ga6...@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
