On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:10:57PM +1000, Jeff Waugh scribbled: > <quote who="Miles Bader"/> > > > I don't think it's bad to prejudice the displayed menus toward the > > `current environment', but I think the difference between the menus > > displayed when using a Gnome desktop and those displayed when using a KDE > > desktop should be fairly minor -- along the lines of different apps > > showing up in certain places, but _not_ rearranging the whole menu > > structure. > > > > In other words, we should be using a unified Debian menu structure with > > appropriate tweaks for certain environments (and in particular, _not_ > > using the default Gnome/KDE menu structures). > > Hey, > > I think this thread could do with a good helping of spec-reading. :-) > > http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/VFolderDesktops.txt > > You can do almost all of this with the vFolder spec, and the best thing is > that you will have to do very little work to it them working in GNOME and > KDE because they will both support the spec. So whatever the .desktop files > that Debian packages install say, GNOME and KDE will do. > > If anything, you guys should be contributing to the spec, to make sure that > it works properly for Debian. Then it will truly kick arse for both the > desktops *and* distributions. Jeff, while all you write above is true and the vFolder spec is the mechanism which will be used (as I gather), I thought this discussion was not about "how to do that technically" but "how to organize the layout". I doubt vFolder will automagically categorize applications, put them in the order we wish, add descriptions etc. etc. vFolder is "merely" a way to technically implement the ideas popping up in this thread, but it's only the smal tip of an iceberg - first we need to know what and how to put it in the menus. IMHO, at least.
regards, marek
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