On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 05:40:27PM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote: > I'm rather non-plussed by the proposal to devalue the Debian Menu > system. I use fvwm, and while for frequently-used apps I don't use the > menu (instead launching them from particular keys), the Debian menu is > how I both launch apps I use less frequently, and explore what I've > got installed. Its comprehensive coverage means that if I'm not quite > sure what application I want, I can have a bit of a browse and try > things out. Any proposal that reduces the coverage of the Debian Menu > seems a bad idea for me... Since DE/WMs are coming up, let me put on my Fluxbox (as the Debian maintainer, not as upstream) hat. Fluxbox is one of the larger consumers of the menu system. There have been murmers for the last fre years in the fluxbox dev rooms about eventually adding XDG Menu stuff into fluxbox, to replace the home-brew menu files in ~/.fluxbox A statement that the menu system in Debian is out-of-date and other systems (which, frankly, work better) are the prefered system to use would likely be the kick that we need to exorcise menu from Fluxbox (likely upstream as well, but I'm not speaking to that right now). Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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