Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries
Daniel Burrows (dnb114@psu.edu):
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:11:08PM -0600, Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx> was heard to say:
> > All that would do is make it consitently different from all other
> > distributions. Assuming that they listed the proper Categories in their
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > "Categories:" section all that would be needed, if we wanted to be
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Isn't that a rather large assumption?
The .desktop format is nice in that there are tools to manipulate
the files [1] so changing this in the packaging is pretty clean.
-Billy
[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/desktop-file-utils
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