On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 01:08:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Therefore, I still feel that, despite it being a big mess, the current > > situation is the best: > > * the default menu contains only what is needed, and we are still > > hunting down entries that are useless to make them not show up > > by default; > > * users wanting the Debian menu and its gazillions of entries > > including window managers, terminal emulators and shell > > interpreters can enable it easily in the menu editor; > > * those really wanting only the Debian menu can replace > > gnome-applications.menu by debian-menu.menu. > > > > If you want this to change, you need to seriously think about evolutions > > to both XDG and Debian menu systems, to convince fd.o and the Debian > > menu maintainer to implement them > > Actually, no, if you want this to change, you have only to do nothing. > > People (many of them MOTUs from Ubuntu in my experience) are filing lots of > requestes for random packages to have .desktop files added to them, so > they appear in the gnome menu. The criteria seems to be "a program that > $RANDOM_USER would like to have on the menu and files a bug about || > that $RANDOM_UPSTREAM ships a desktop file for, for whatever reason".
I wouldn't be surprised if most of those had "NoDisplay=true" as one of the fields[0]. While there may be a drive to add .desktop files to packaging, there's a similar (sometimes overzealous, IME) drive to have them not displayed by default. [0] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPackagingChanges?highlight=%28NoDisplay%29#head-5c07e3429829189474d24f6bcc1f2bee2f385e9a -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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