On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:18:21PM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > Andrew Suffield (asuffield@debian.org): > > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:49:54AM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > > > Andrew Suffield (asuffield@debian.org): > > > > > > > It's "pass a few more text fields through to the menu methods, and > > > > use them to generate .desktop files" versus "rewrite everything". > > > > > > You sure it's "rewrite everything"? A script to parse all .desktop > > > files in /usr/share/applications and output the same as > > > 'update-menus > > > > Straw man, again. The proposal was to rewrite all menu entries as > > .desktop files - yeah, I'm sure that means rewriting them all. > > Agreed on that, but it's not rewriting all of the menu package, which > is what I felt your post implied. Did you miss the context I quoted? You've since deleted it; let's bring it back: >...> 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? And >...> that this information would be lost? Why not run it the other way around, >...> convert the existing debian menu entries to .desktop files and work from >...> there? I think that this way would help debian on the desktops. [Ignoring most of the drivel, the second to last sentence is the relevant one; the rest of the mail I was replying to followed on from that] > Rewriting all menu files is fairly > trivial and does not have to be done all at once. "Fairly trivial"? I have over a hundred affected packages installed on this box alone. And... you do have to rewrite the menu package as well, obviously: > > > A script to parse all .desktop > > > files in /usr/share/applications and output the same as > > > 'update-menus That's most of the interesting content of the menu package (plus documentation etc). It's not really a very complicated package. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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