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

[Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:42:25AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Worse yet - after demanding that, we probably will rewrite their
> .desktop files - We will still (I hope) strive to provide menus
> consistent with our way of doing things. One of the main roles of the
> maintainers of a distribution is to handle interaction between each
> individual package and the rest of the collection - this involves
> sorting out how menus will be presented.

All that would do is make it consitently different from all other
distributions. Assuming that they listed the proper Categories in their
"Categories:" section all that would be needed, if we wanted to be
different from other dists, is tweaking of how to break out the menu
hierarchy. It would not involve any modification of the .desktop files
themselves.

See section A.

http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/menu-spec-0.8.html

Chris Cheney

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