Re: Debian menus policy
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:02:36AM +0000, Rob Bradford wrote:
> > > > I think it would be a good idea to have a real push at getting as menu
> > > > entries for all X applications. And similar for GNOME/Gtk and KDE. Although
> > > > policy doesnt *require* it, it would be a very highly recommended.
> >
> > I would like to see all dpkg-installed X apps in the menu, yes. This is
> > not currently the case.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you (Rob) mean by "similar for GNOME/Gtk and KDE" --
> > do you mean that Debian menus should be organized the same as GNOME or
> > KDE's menus? I don't think I would favor that, because I don't much like
> > how GNOME's menus are organized, and it might be problematic to try to
> > be the same as GNOME and the same as KDE at the same time. Or did you
> > mean something else?
>
> Sorry if you misunderstood this, i meant that GNOME applications, should be
> almost *required* to be listed in the GNOME menus as well as the Debian
> ones. Some are in neither, some in just Debian, others just in GNOME. I
> expect its a similar story for KDE.
Please feel free to bug all of these packages, for this is a violation of
Policy :)
Section 10.6. "Menus" says:
All packages that provide applications that need not be passed any
special command line arguments for normal operation should register a
menu entry for those applications, so that users of the `menu' package
will automatically get menu entries in their window managers, as well
in shells like `pdmenu'.
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