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

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 01:01, Marc Wilson wrote:

> Not at all.  You want to enforce on $RANDOM_UPSTREAM the idea that they
> have to support .desktop files.  That is *not* going to work.  Debian does
> not have that sort of power.
> 
> On the other hand, the idea that an application desiring to participate in
> the menu system being required to provide the necessary menu-method to get
> from .desktop files to their own format is much more reasonable.  Upstream
> can create that,

The above two paragraphs don't make sense to me, in combination.  If
upstream can write code to convert from .desktop to their own format,
why can't they just include that directly in their software?  The user
would never have to know that the software wasn't reading .desktop
"natively" (except that presumably it wouldn't support all the .desktop
features).

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