On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:01:27PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:19:28PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > | On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:34:22AM +0100, Raphael Goulais wrote: > | > On Wednesday 03 December 2003 21:31, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > | > > I agree. I would like to see .desktop standard adopted. There have been > | > > a few threads I have seen so far, and there seems to be some level of > | > > resistance to the idea. > | > > | > The silly question is : What does our actual menu system provide that > | > shouldn't be achieved by using .desktop file ? > | > > | > As those are going to be a standard, we should deal with them. > | > | You could swap "our menu system" and ".desktop files" here and your > | argument would still be about as valid. > > I don't think that this is the case. As I understand it, .desktop files > have the advantage that they are already shipped by a number of upstream > packages, support i18n better than Debian menus, are supported natively > by KDE and Gnome, include facilities for providing stuff like generic names > and are supported by the freedesktop.org folk.
That wasn't his argument. However, it's similar, and the response is the same: why not simply add these features to the Debian menu system? Nothing you've described is particularly difficult, or anything that we haven't done before in different contexts. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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