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



On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:57:29PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:51:53AM +0100, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
> 
> > > You do realize that the desktop standard has more features than the debian
> > > menu system? Like i18n, icon theming, dynamic construction of a menu
> > > hierarchy based on user /Desktop system preferences and so on?
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Because you gain *nothing*
> 
> Are you claiming that everyone who says that .desktop has technical
> advantages is a liar? These features actually do not exist in the
> desktop format? (It may be so; I have no firsthand information, but it
> does sound far out).

No. I'm claiming that everyone who says that "only by using .desktop
exclusively can we do these things" is a liar. Alternate approaches
(that involve significantly less work) have been sketched out several
times now.

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