CTTE Meeting minutes

2015-08-27 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi all, Thank you all for the efficient meeting yesterday, here are it's minutes: #debian-ctte Meeting Meeting started by OdyX at 18:59:26 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-ctte/2015/debian-ctte.2015-08-26-18.59.log.ht

Bug#741573: Proposed draft of ballot to resolve menu/desktop question

2015-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Responding mostly to Keith's draft from debian-ctte.git. The Whereas leaves out a very important aspect of this. It is not sufficient to simply decide on the file format. The primary dispute here is not really about file formats. The trad Debian menu is primarily curated collection of metadata

Bug#741573: Proposed draft of ballot to resolve menu/desktop question

2015-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
I had an interesting and helpful conversation with a member of the KDE team at Debconf. They made an interesting proposal: * We have machinery that can produce trad menu files from desktop files. * It is possible to have extension information in extra fields in a .desktop file. This cou

Bug#741573: Proposed draft of ballot to resolve menu/desktop question

2015-08-27 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 27 août 2015, 18.11:56 Ian Jackson a écrit : > The trad Debian menu, and the XDG menu files as found in existing > desktop applications, do not agree on either > (i) the scope of the menu Right. But the 'trad Debian menu' (as outlined in Policy §9.6) has never reached the point where "a