On Wed, Jan 17, 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: > am I wrong or one can have foo.png in foo.desktop, and foo.xpm in > foo.menu? If upstream does not provide an xpm icon, the "convert" > command of the imagemagick package can easily create one at build time.
My point is that I shouldn't have to maintain both, or to run convert each time this is necessary. > Also, I have the impression that the Debian menu system is not a > reinvented wheel, but an old wheel kept in the car in case it is needed. "Reinventing the wheel" was perhaps not the best way to describe the problem; I wanted to point out that the Debian meny system has antediluvian requirements and duplicates the functionality of the GNOME menu for me. I suggested the Debian menu system would handle or import the data from the .desktop files instead of requiring me to do it manually. > Both systems are not in competition in my opinion. No, but in some use cases they are mutually exclusive. The Debian menu system is completely useless to me, and I expect to most GNOME and KDE users. I'm not saying we should drop it since I can't claim it's useless for everybody. I am saying that the fact it is useless to me and to most of the users of the GNOME packages I maintain doesn't call for a good maintenance of the menu entries of these packages; and I am proposing technical ways to solve this. > Lastly, as a maintainer of packages wich are not part of a > FreeDesktop-compatible suite, I would welcome instructions about where > and when registering an application in the FreeDesktop menu. Or even > better, a policy. There are specs on the .desktop file format on the freedesktop.org website. I don't think we need to have a policy in Debian to map it one to one, nor should we impose all packages to ship .desktop files: it would cause the exact same problem I'm complaining about. Beside, if I understand the point of the menu-xdg package, it will do the job of exposing your menu entries (I suppose with approximations and ugly icons) to FreeDesktop compliant desktop environments. > Not being a user of this menu, I have a hard time guessing what users > expect. This probably means that you understand my position on Debian menu. :) -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
