On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:36:07 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, David Paleino wrote: > > > What about making all environments out there support the freedesktop.org > > standard instead? > > The situation is different. It is not that all environments support > Debian menu but many of them invented their own menu system. The Debian > Menu system just provides scripts to translate a common (Debian invented) > format to support each specific menu system. Ok. > So the correct formulation of your suggestion is: "What about porting all > these scripts to use freedesktop.org format input Then we can drop "menu" files, in favour of .desktop ones. > and at the same time fix all packages that only have a menu but no desktop > file." This could easily be added as a lintian check, I believe. > You will never manage to "force" upstream authors of different environments > to support freedesktop.org standard because you have no handle to force > anybody in Free Software. Sure you can't, but standards exist for this reason. And sane upstreams would certainly adhere to standards. Ciao, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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