Re: Gnome menu support (Was: /usr/lib/menu vs .desktop files - possible mass bug filling)
>>>>> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:51:19 -0300, Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> said:
Ben> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:24:23PM +0200, Andreas Tille
Ben> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just want to attract you attention to this question on
>> debian-devel. This is not insterestung under the aspect of a
>> bug, but I'd like to hear your opinion how we should support
>> Gnome menus.
Ben> Clearly to be policy-compliant we should have /usr/lib/menu
Ben> files. Also, to be xdg-compliant, we can optionally provide
Ben> .desktop files. If we are missing .desktop files, we can
Ben> rely on menu-xdg to populate GNOME's menus from the
Ben> /usr/lib/menu files. So I don't think the .desktop files are
Ben> a necessary thing.
I didn't know about menu-xdg. It looks interesting, but the package
really lacks documentation.
How does it work? What is the difference with the kdebase and
gnome-panel menu-methods?
bye,
free
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