Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMO the Debian menu should be entirely deprecated unless something > serious is done about it. Currently:
> * It is utterly and absolutely ugly. 32x32 XPM icons are not > matching the graphic quality we have on the rest of the desktop. This seems like a reasonable complaint to me. > * Its structure is impractical. Most important things are in > Applications/, which adds a menu level with no use, and several > submenus are useless. Switching to .desktop files doesn't inherently fix this. We still have to figure out a coherent structure. I assume you're aware of the work currently going on to restructure the menu hierarchy. > * Most importantly, it is absolutely full of useless stuff. Well, neither Policy nor Menu Policy offers any guidance on what should have a menu entry and what shouldn't, so this isn't surprising. Switching to .desktop files won't fix this either if people create .desktop files for all the things you don't think should have them. It seems to me like a productive way forward on this point would be to develop a policy on what should have menu entries and what shouldn't and add that policy to the existing Menu Policy document. Otherwise, packagers of new shells, for example, will look at existing shell packages, see a menu entry, and assume they should add one in the absence of guidance otherwise. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
