Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

[Moritz Moeller-Herrmann <mmh@gmx.net>]

Andreas Metzler wrote:

> Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net> wrote:
>> Steve Greenland (steveg@moregruel.net):
>>> On 04-Dec-03, 14:44 (CST), Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > There's now a standard used by KDE and GNOME which has more features
>>> > than the Debian menu system.
> 
>>> And missing one key one: working with menu sysems other than KDE and
>>> GNOME.
> 
>>  So far there has been a lot of support for the .desktop standard
>> effort.  Which systems do you refer to that are not supporting,
>> adopting, or intending to adopt the .desktop standard?
> 
> Have you any evidence that (or any idea whether) fvwm, icewm, wmaker,
> lwm, ...[1] plan to support .desktop?

It is trivial to support desktop in icewm. Check out icewm.py, one of my few
programming exercises.

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