Re: Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Tom wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:06:48PM +0100, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
> > freedesktop entry features > debian menu file features
> >
> > Therefore you can do a lossless transition from .desktop to menu, but not
> > the other way around. It makes sense to use the .desktop standard.
>
> I know what you mean, but don't you mean "lossless transition from menu
> to .desktop" ? .desktop is the one that has more features, so a
> transition from .desktop to menu would lose.
>
> It's trivial but I might not understand the issues if its the opposite.
It is a metter of perspective.
A transition from .desktop to menu only loses if the subsystems using
the menu entries are capable of using the lost data.
HTH
- Bruce
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