On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:37:51AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 01:01, Marc Wilson wrote:
>
> > Not at all. You want to enforce on $RANDOM_UPSTREAM the idea that they
> > have to support .desktop files. That is *not* going to work. Debian does
> > not have that sort of power.
> >
> > On the other hand, the idea that an application desiring to participate in
> > the menu system being required to provide the necessary menu-method to get
> > from .desktop files to their own format is much more reasonable. Upstream
> > can create that,
>
> The above two paragraphs don't make sense to me, in combination.
The rest of the second paragraph, which you clipped, make it plain that
what I was doing was listing sources for the .desktop
file-converting-menu-method. It could be provided by upstream, it could be
created by the Debian package maintainer, it could be part of the menu
package. In short, it could be created by just about anyone.
> If upstream can write code to convert from .desktop to their own format,
> why can't they just include that directly in their software?
Perhaps THEY don't want to, but do want to allow their software to
participate in the Debian menu system. It would be their choice, one way,
or the other.
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