On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:50:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> writes: > > On 13-05-13 10:02, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > >> Packages can, to be compatible with Debian additions to some > >> legacy window managers, also provide a menu file. Such menu > >> entries should follow the Debian menu policy, which can be found > >> in the menu-policy files in the debian-policy package. It is > >> also available from the Debian web mirrors > >> at /doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/. > > > If we're going to suggest desktop files in policy, I would rather prefer > > that we change window managers to read desktop files instead of menu > > files, and remove this suggestion altogether. Having two ways to specify > > menu entries means you'll get two half menus rather than one whole, > > which isn't a good idea. > > So would everyone else, but no one has done the work. I think enough > years have gone by that it doesn't make sense to keep waiting for someone > to volunteer to do this work for the less common window managers like > fvwm.
Because this is not possible. The XDG menu specification requires funky stuff like XSLT processing which are not compatible with the spirit of a lightweight window manager. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130514213140.GC9991@yellowpig
