Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
I have a very different take on this to Russ. We currently have two menu systems. I'm going to call them the "trad" and "desktop" menus. They have the following very important differences (some of these are matters of opinion, but I will take what appear to me to be the opinions of their respec

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-08 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi I think there is a couple of facts that aren't fully accurate. I'll try to mention them here. I'll try to keep opinions out of this mail. On Tuesday 08 April 2014 18:30:26 Ian Jackson wrote: > Consumers: The trad menu is already consumable by a very wide range of > window managers etc.; the d

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-08 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:23:50PM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: > Note that a very wide range of window managers neither supports the trad. > menu > nor the desktop menu, but has a series of scripts to modify one or the other > into their native format. In Debian, most of these window managers onl

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-08 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 8 avril 2014, 18.30:26 Ian Jackson a écrit : > Technology: The two systems have different file formats. While the > semantics of the information presented overlap, there are substantial > differences in the capabilities of the two systems. The 'trad' menu file or the 'desktop' xdg file