Re: adding desktop files to misc packages
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:25:47 +0100, Matthew Johnson <debian@matthew.ath.cx> said:
> Eduard Bloch wrote:
>> * Josselin Mouette [Wed, Jul 18 2007, 07:32:28PM]:
>>
>> > > The Debian menu system will generate .desktop files from .menu
>> > > files if the .desktop file does not exist. This is intended
>> > > solely as a temporary compatibility measure.
>> >
>> > This is a very bad idea. It is going to clutter the freedesktop
>> > menu with tons of useless entries with ugly icons and make it as
>> > useless as
>>
>> Make it short, what is your point? Not allowing others to play in
>> your GNOME sandbox?
> Surely the correct approach is to say that people who don't want to
> see it won't have it installed and people who have it installed want
> to be able to use it from the menu. Programs which you have to have
> installed and yet don't want to see in the menu probably shouldn't
> have (visible by default) menu entries and should be dealt with by
> fixing that program, not by removing all the other entries.
Haven't heard of multi-user systems, have we? What if some of
the users want to see it in the menu, and other do not? Surely we do
not want to make Debian unsuited for multi user installations?
I have been using a central server with essentially Etch thin
clients at one of our testbeds at work; and it does solve a number of
sysadmin headaches for us.
manoj
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He's just like Capistrano, always ready for a few swallows.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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