Re: adding desktop files to misc packages
* Mike Hommey (mh@glandium.org) [070714 15:41]:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 02:26:05PM +0200, Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> wrote:
> > #include <hallo.h>
> > * Josselin Mouette [Sat, Jul 14 2007, 02:26:55AM]:
> > > Le vendredi 13 juillet 2007 à 17:16 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > > > > Oh my. Do you mean that in the 90 window managers shipped in Debian,
> > > > > none of them is suitable for all your needs and that you have to use
> > > > > *several* ones depending on the moment?
> > > >
> > > > Unix systems have supported selecting window managers on-the-fly for years
> > > > before Debian did it. Why does one extra entry for a submenu offend you so?
> > >
> > > I'm wondering what is the use case for that entry.
> >
> > Changing another WM on-the-fly when letting somebody use your PC,
> > without restarting the whole X session? Testing other WMs? The fact you
> > are not imagining any use cases does not mean that such ones do not exist.
>
> The fact there are use cases does not mean it *must* have a menu entry.
> You can pretty much find use cases for very rare and useful for a
> only a couple people things, and yet not have to include a menu entry for
> that for everyone.
One solution might be to generate a "view all"-view, and allow
applications to specify to be seen in default view or only in "view
all"-view.
Cheers,
Andi
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