Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files
On 14-05-13 23:31, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:50:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
>>> On 13-05-13 10:02, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>>
>>>> Packages can, to be compatible with Debian additions to some
>>>> legacy window managers, also provide a menu file. Such menu
>>>> entries should follow the Debian menu policy, which can be found
>>>> in the menu-policy files in the debian-policy package. It is
>>>> also available from the Debian web mirrors
>>>> at /doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/.
>>
>>> If we're going to suggest desktop files in policy, I would rather prefer
>>> that we change window managers to read desktop files instead of menu
>>> files, and remove this suggestion altogether. Having two ways to specify
>>> menu entries means you'll get two half menus rather than one whole,
>>> which isn't a good idea.
>>
>> So would everyone else, but no one has done the work. I think enough
>> years have gone by that it doesn't make sense to keep waiting for someone
>> to volunteer to do this work for the less common window managers like
>> fvwm.
>
> Because this is not possible. The XDG menu specification requires funky stuff like
> XSLT processing which are not compatible with the spirit of a lightweight window
> manager.
Do you have any reference to that?
Also, I don't think the requirement should be anything like "you must
implement the desktop format to the letter"; more like "you should
distill a usable menu from things in /usr/share/applications". Sometimes
this may mean losing information, but that's probably fine.
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