Re: [desktop] Please read the vFolder spec [Was: why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks]

2002-10-25 Thread Miles Bader
Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The .desktop format is the proposed replacement for Debian's current menu > file format, and in use by GNOME and KDE already. I would have thought the > standard was required reading for even starting to discuss the next-gen menu > stuff in Debian... > >

Re: [desktop] Please read the vFolder spec [Was: why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks]

2002-10-25 Thread Miles Bader
Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think this thread could do with a good helping of spec-reading. :-) > > http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/VFolderDesktops.txt I looked at that, and it's almost completely impossible to understand, since it apparently assumes that you already know wh

Re: [desktop] why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks

2002-10-25 Thread Miles Bader
Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In other words, we should be using a unified Debian menu structure > > > with appropriate tweaks for certain environments (and in > > > particular, _not_ using the default Gnome/KDE menu structures). > > > > Yup. > > No... The point behind the vFolde

Re: [desktop] why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks

2002-10-24 Thread Miles Bader
Luke Seubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Perhaps DD should _think_ about this issue -- for instance, if it has > > to choose only one terminal program to display in a menu, it should > > make an `environmentally aware' choice (KDE for KDE, Gnome for Gnome, > > Joe's Wackyterm for everybody else

Re: why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks

2002-10-24 Thread Miles Bader
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:29:56PM -0400, Luke Seubert wrote: > However, that does not mean that Debian Desktop should not care. KDE apps > designed to run optimally under the KDE Desktop environment. Apps run > better and faster because the libraries are already pre-loaded. > > So, if Desktop De

Re: why kde and gnome's menu situation sucks

2002-10-23 Thread Miles Bader
Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not necessarily. When I use KDE, I largely want to use KDE apps. I > personally think GNOME/KDE should offer their own menus, with a submenu > in each category for "Non-{GNOME,KDE} Applications". I don't see a > problem with this, i.e. how our KDE3 package