On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:03:31AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Hm, I'm wondering about how serious people are taking this. I would > > personally like to see Debian move ( in the long term, like most > > Debian things ) to freedesktop menu standards, because those have a > > much higher chance of being available in third party software. This > > is of course not at all urgent, and I'm not entirely sure it would be > > worth the extra effort. What do you think about this ? > > I don't think it will happen, or even that it is a good idea. Most > upstream .desktop (outside KDE or GNOME core) are made to advertise the > software rather than trying to build a consistent menu structure. What do you mean by this comment? The categories are well defined, some applications don't list all the needed Categories listed yet, but for the most part are much better laid out than the current official category list used in Debian (Viewers for example, which includes everything from pdf viewers to graphics apps to media players like xine)... > I wonder if it would not be more worthwhile to keep the Debian menu > as an 'omnibus' menu, and reserve the xdg menu for the desktop > environnement. This way, the menu would provide a more consistent desktop > experience. Whichever menu is used will obviously be consistent since it will be the one used throughout Debian, I don't see why you claim that the current Debian menu would be consistent and the xdg menu would not... I have been meaning to work on the actual xdg menu itself (not the .desktop files) since once more than KDE uses the menu it will have to be reworked. Gnome 2.6 still uses a hardcoded menu with the .desktop files. Also the official menu spec lends itself to what I think at least is a better menu layout than what KDE currently uses as well. Chris
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