On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 01:36:33PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 15 janvier 2010 à 22:18 +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > Where is it documented ? Do you really want menu-xdg to generate xsessions > > in> /usr/share/xsessions? > > No. The Debian menu specification does not obtain sufficient information > to generate them, so it is out of question to generate them > automatically. It would duplicate existing entries and add broken ones.
The Debian menu specification does not limit what amount of information is available to menu-xdg. It is simply a matter of adding a new field. So, exactly what information is missing ? > > If xsessions is anything like the other existing XDG specification, it is > > trivial for GDM to read xsessions file in /var/lib/menu-xdg/xsessions. > > Yes it is indeed trivial. The reason why it doesn’t read them anymore is > because the contents of this directory is wrong. > > > The > > only real issue is #464179 but first duplicated entries is not a critical > > problem > > WTF? Duplicated entries is a major usability issue. This particular usability issue is nothing compared to the usability issue of missing entries. Anyway, I will change menu-xdg not to generate files in /var/lib/menu-xdg/xsessions if there is already a file in /usr/share/xsessions. How does that sound ? > A window manager is not a session manager. Just because some of them can > serve as both (often in a very restricted way) doesn’t mean you can add > all of them blindly. You still fails to mention a single needs=wm menu entry that does not work. In the end, what gdm should start should be let to the choice of the user. Please find the list of current needs=wm menu entries and tells me which are wrong. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
share/menu/9wm: title="9wm" command="/usr/bin/9wm" share/menu/aewm: title="aewm" command="/usr/bin/aewm" share/menu/aewm++:?package(aewm++):needs="wm" section="Window Managers" title="aewm++" command="/usr/bin/aewm++" share/menu/afterstep: title="AfterStep" command="/usr/bin/afterstep" share/menu/amiwm: command="/usr/bin/amiwm" share/menu/awesome: command="/usr/bin/awesome" \ share/menu/blackbox: command="/usr/bin/blackbox" \ share/menu/dwm: command="/usr/bin/dwm" share/menu/e16: title="e16" command="/usr/bin/e16" share/menu/fluxbox:?package(fluxbox):needs="wm" section="Window Managers" title="FluxBox" command="/usr/bin/startfluxbox" share/menu/flwm: title="Flwm" command="/usr/bin/flwm" \ share/menu/fvwm: command="/usr/bin/fvwm2" share/menu/fvwm1: command="/usr/bin/fvwm1" share/menu/icewm:?package(icewm):command="/usr/bin/icewm" needs="wm" \ share/menu/icewm-experimental:?package(icewm-experimental):command="/usr/bin/icewm-experimental" needs="wm" \ share/menu/icewm-lite:?package(icewm-lite):command="/usr/bin/icewm-lite" needs="wm" \ share/menu/ion3: title="Ion3" command="/usr/bin/ion3" share/menu/ion3: title="PWM3" command="/usr/bin/pwm3" share/menu/jwm: command="/usr/bin/jwm" share/menu/larswm: command="/usr/bin/larswm" share/menu/lesstif-bin: command="/usr/bin/mwm" share/menu/lwm: title="lwm" command="/usr/bin/lwm" share/menu/miwm: command="/usr/bin/miwm" share/menu/openbox: title="Openbox" command="/usr/bin/openbox" \ share/menu/oroborus: title="Oroborus" command="/usr/bin/oroborus" share/menu/pekwm:?package(pekwm):needs="wm" section="Window Managers" title="Pekwm" command="/usr/bin/pekwm" share/menu/ratpoison: title="ratpoison" command="/usr/bin/ratpoison" share/menu/sapphire: title="Sapphire" command="/usr/bin/sapphire" share/menu/sawfish: title="Sawfish" command="/usr/bin/sawfish" share/menu/sugar-session-0.84: title="Sugar" command="/usr/bin/sugar" share/menu/sugar-session-0.86: title="Sugar" command="/usr/bin/sugar" share/menu/sugar-session-0.88: title="Sugar" command="/usr/bin/sugar" share/menu/uwm: title="uwm" command="/usr/bin/uwm" share/menu/w9wm: command="/usr/bin/w9wm" share/menu/windowlab: command="/usr/bin/windowlab" share/menu/wm2:?package(wm2):command="/usr/bin/wm2" needs="wm" \ share/menu/wmaker: command="/usr/bin/wmaker" share/menu/wmii: command="/usr/bin/wmii" share/menu/wmii2: command="/usr/bin/wmii"
