Charles Plessy wrote: > Having a .desktop file is a requrement in Ubuntu, so it is not > surprising that people submit patches in wishlist bugs : they are > encouraged to do so. Looking from the email adress of the bug senders > from xgalaga and kobodeluxe, they obiously come from there. Yes, but I'm talking about Debian, and what Debian should do. > The FreeDesktop menu system has a mechanism to make entries invisible > with given desktop managers. What we miss in Debian is a policy, or just > statemenst from relevant teams, which guides maintainers when they have > to deal with .desktop files. Yes, that's why I started this thread. Until there is one, I don't see any reason why I should accept patches adding menu files to my packages. > In the absence of any policy from the GNOME, KDE or XFCE teams, my > personal standpoint is that entries are welcome, so I do add .desktop > files. Acutally, I even create them when I prepare a new package which > lacks them. I also support the idea to chose a format from which .menu > and .desktop files would be generated. It is definitely not fun to > maintian two similar files in parallel. Generating both menu and .desktop files from a third format would be pointless. Either format can be generated from the other format. menu already generates .desktop files from menu files, and I don't believe it would be too hard to make menu _read_ .desktop files directly and use it as a source for the other files it generates. -- see shy jo
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