On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:39:47AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mardi, 29 septembre 2015, 02.10:01 Guillem Jover a écrit : > > Wow, this is such terrible policy… So we have supporters of the XDG > > format, and supporters of the menu format. Some of those would and > > have accepted files of their non-preferred format in their packages, > > some have outright refused them. But now they have to choose between > > one of them, because they can no longer ship both. > > One of the points of the TC decision is precisely to avoid a "free > choice" between the two formats. The first point of that decision is to > adopt ba679bff76f5b9152f43d5bc901b9b3aad257479 in the Debian Policy, > which contains: > > Packages shipping applications that comply with minimal requirements > > described below for integration with desktop environments should > > register these applications in the desktop menu, (…) > > Applications "should" be registered in the FreeDesktop menu if that > makes sense. The second point of the TC decision (which phrasing to be > committed in the Debian Policy we're currently discussing) is to forbid > applications that do provide XDG menu entries to _also_ provide "trad > menu" entries.
So, I'm with Guillem on this one. Saying that the FreeDesktop menu should be the default and "source" format, I wholeheartedly support that choice. Making it clear that not shipping a .menu file is not a bug, and that it is a bug (not necessarily RC, but still) for a window manager to not look at the fdo menu? Sure, great policy. But _forbidding_ maintainers who want to from shipping a second file, if that somehow makes the experience of menu users better than what the fdo menu would have given them? Sorry, but that seems petty and silly. I don't think I'll encounter the issue, seen as none of my packages ship any menu entry, let alone a .desktop file, today. But yeah, it's something I think I'll blatantly ignore if/when the time comes. -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26
