Re: adding desktop files to misc packages
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On 07/24/07 17:31, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 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.
Sounds like he's either (a) got a Windows mentality, or (b) doesn't
want unprivileged users to see non-essential apps.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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