On 14-05-13 23:31, Bill Allombert wrote: > 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.
Do you have any reference to that? Also, I don't think the requirement should be anything like "you must implement the desktop format to the letter"; more like "you should distill a usable menu from things in /usr/share/applications". Sometimes this may mean losing information, but that's probably fine. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today. -- http://xkcd.com/1133/ -- 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/51935dd7.6060...@debian.org
