Mathieu Roy wrote: > If it is just a matter of time, the transition can be done step by > step: the first step is just to say that this transition should be > done. > > It doesn't need to be done in two days, does it? If new packages start > directly with .desktop and others packages move to .desktop in the > next year, it does not seems to be an awful load of extra work. If that happened then we would, for an undefined length of time that would probably span a Debian release, have two divergent sets of menus, with some programs randomly on the Debian menus, and some programs randomly on the free desktop menus. This would be unusable, and a bad regression. You speak of a transition, but I see no transition plan here. I suppose that this thread is useless, and someone will eventually write code, and that person will be the one who decides how it works. -- see shy jo
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