On 04-Dec-03, 14:44 (CST), Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's now a standard used by KDE and GNOME which has more features than the
> Debian menu system.
And missing one key one: working with menu sysems other than KDE and GNOME.
> Which makes more sense:
> * Investing time in adding features to the Debian menu system, keeping
> maximum menu work on the Debian maintainers, retaining poor GNOME and
> KDE integration, and generally competing with the freedesktop standard
...but which support the hundreds (thousands?) of menu entries that
already exist in Debian packages.
> Perhaps a "backward-compatability-menu" module could be written to
> automagically generate Debian menu entries from .desktop entries. If this
> would satisfy everyone's complaints, I'll write the damn thing.
Do it. Get it added to the menu package, in such a way that it
automatically creates/updates/removes the appropriate /usr/lib/menu/
entries when a package is installed/upgraded/removed. Then the existing
menu methods for all the other WMs would continue to work.
Most of us (I think) don't object to using the .desktop format. We
object to having *both*.
Steve
--
Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
