Bug#741573: Two menu systems
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> So, I think the questions before the TC are:
>>
>> 1. Should programs that make sense in the context of a typical DE (I
>> realize there's some fuzziness around this) all have desktop files?
> Ah, I completely misread this before as saying "menu files" instead of
> "desktop files".
> Was there actually any disagreement about which desktop apps should ship
> desktop files? I don't think the TC needs to answer this one if they
> don't want to, except perhaps where it overlaps with the question "What
> should packagers do to prevent duplicate entries when trying to support
> both menu systems?"
It goes to the question of whether providing desktop files are some
version of "should." It wasn't clear to me whether we had consensus on
that part. Bill proposed a patch that added just that part, presumably in
an attempt to test consensus on that bit, and so far I'm the only
seconder.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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