Re: Debian menu system update

[Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@mbrix.dk>]

Hi Colin,

* Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> [2003-05-30 20:00:30]:
> > 1) The sections that are normally used within the Category field in a .desktop
> > file isn't the same as with menu. Here I have decided to make menu
> > automatically convert a category into menus system. E.g. Category:
> > Application;WordProcessor will be changed to Apps/Editors.
> 
> Right, we'll need a mapping to transition.  But honestly, I think we
> should take this opportunity to revamp our menu categories too.

I'll let someone else take the initiative and decision about that. I
want to mainly concentrate on the code part.

> > 3) The current menu files has a "package" field to designate which
> > package must be installed before the menu file will be used. In our
> > .desktop files, this field will be named X-Menu-Package. But I'm unsure
> > whether we should still require this field. Not requiring it might break
> > some menu entries; but requiring it will force us to change upstreams
> > .desktop files with the addition of X-Menu-Package.
> 
> Probably what we should do to transition this is to get a list of all
> the files in /{,usr/}{,s}bin/, and put that in the TryExec field.  What
> do you think?

Hmm, that might be a good solution. I wonder whether it will have any
pitfalls comparing to the package field dependency.

  - Morten.