Re: adding desktop files to misc packages
Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@lysator.liu.se> writes:
> On Wednesday 18 July 2007 19:44, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Surely any proposal for replacing the menu system with desktop files
>> has to involve generating menu files from desktop files for the benefit
>> of programs that use the menu system and don't understand desktop
>> files?
> Eh, correct me if I'm wrong, but surely the way it works is that
> install-menu and the various menu-method provided by window/desktop
> manager packages to convert the set of menu files into the native menu
> configuration formats of those window/desktop managers? install-menu
> would now be improved to read .desktop files directly; there is no need
> to convert them into .menu files first (and really no reason to convert
> .menu to .desktop either).
Yes, good point, although I'm worried that it's going to take a while to
rewrite that code to convert .desktop files instead, and converting
.desktop to .menu would give us interim backward compatibility.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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