On 2008-07-09, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:05:11AM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > -> AFAIK there's no fundamental reason why Debian couldn't switch > > from menu to .desktop to specify the desktop entries (aside from the > > necessary coding not having been done to adapt menu to do so) > > Debian menu files specify things that .desktop files don't and (in > their current incarnation) can't. Most notably, the "needs" field. > The .desktop files have a simple boolean flag for "runs in terminal". > That's inadequate for Debian's needs. For example, Fvwm modules > *must* be invoked by Fvwm. It would be pointless and stupid to put > them in any menu but Fvwm's. So, the Fvwm modules need "fvwmmodule", > not "text" or"x11". That's simply not possible with .desktop files.
The OnlyShowIn field of .desktop files, is meant exactly for the above use Anybody know of any other concrete worries? > Debian menus are generated. There's no advantage in generating them > from .desktop files, the advantage would be that for the growing amount of programs for which upstream already includes .desktop files (complete with translations), Debian doesn't need to create/maintain one. > because the format of the output of the generator is what matters, not the > format of the input. Generating Debian menus from .desktop files would > not change a thing, except that we'd have to rewrite the generator. that's a 'someone who cares enough needs to step up and do the work', which leaves the ball in the camp of whoever wants to push the switch -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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