On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:27:50PM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > Andrew Suffield (asuffield@debian.org): > > > > Are there any technical complaints about it? (Apart from "I don't > > > like the .desktop extension", which I consider unimportant.) > > > > It doesn't support anything but gnome or kde. We have a system that > > works for everything, and it is unlikely that anybody else will go to > > that much trouble. > > Can you back this up? The desktop and menu standards seem to have a > lot of support in the window manager developer community. Furthermore, > it would be pretty trivial to convert the Debian system over to .desktop > files (even more trivial than the other way around). "A lot of support" doesn't mean dick. We have a complete working system. Go through all the things in Debian that install stuff into /etc/menu-methods/, and count how many of them support .desktop files. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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