On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 07:27:00PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> 2013/5/15 Bernhard R. Link <brl...@debian.org>:
> > * Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> [130515 12:54]:
> >> The menu layout files are XML. While the standard does not mandate the use 
> >> of
> >> XSLT, it requires manipulation of XML files which are equivalent to XSLT
> >> processing.
> >
> > Window managers do not really need to be exposed to this format. The
> > menu program could just read .desktop files and generate a menu for the
> > window managers using the already existing menu-methods.
> >
> > The format is not really the problem. The problem is the missing
> > contents of desktop files.
> Which pieces are missing, btw.? Maybe there is a chance to include
> these bits into the XDG desktop-file specification, if they make
> sense. (although I assume someone already tried that)

Mostly the bits that are in the .menu XML files.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>

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