On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:54:30 +0200 Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM, William Pitcock > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Honestly, policy really needs to be updated to use the XDG > >> standards menu spec, and every WM at this point really should be > >> using them for their menus. > >> > >> I think the debian-menu system should be seen as legacy, since it > >> has been replaced with a standard used and supported by many > >> upstreams and many other distros. > >> > >> However, there's a few places where debian-menu is a better > >> solution though. (It can be used to build menus for many WMs which > >> do not support XDG, but honestly, do we need all these WMs?) > >> > >> Another solution would be to make debian-menu build .desktop > >> entries for the menu in the main menu namespace and not the > >> 'Debian' namespace; this seems like the easiest solution. > > > +1 > > I don't think that the idea of superseding menu lacks support, it > lacks people doing the work (and the coding part seems small compared > to creating a mapping the categories, preferably in both directions, > and come up with a sane policy). Also, this seems to be something to > do shortly after a release... Which makes coming up with sane policy around now a good idea, methinks. (So development can be underway and implemented by lenny+1). Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com
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