Re: adding desktop files to misc packages
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:17:51PM +0200, Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>>> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> wrote:
>>> >> Absolutely *wrong*.
>>> >>
>>> >> Gnome and KDE are targeted primarily at desktop users, not servers. If,
>>> >> as a desktop user, I install a graphical app on my machine, I *expect*
>>> >> to see that app in the main menu. The place where I put important
>>> >> and/or frequently used apps is on a panel/toolbar.
>>> >
>>> > If you install the python interpreter on your machine, do you also expect it
>>> > to appear in the main menu ?
>>>
>>> No, why do you ask? The python interpreter isn't a graphical
>>> application. It also doesn't have a menu entry, so there's nothing to
>>> hide.
>>
>> You obviously never looked at the Debian menu.
>
> How do you come to that conclusion?
Well, that's clear, since it actually has a menu entry. I looked in
/usr/share/menu but overlooked it. But that's still completely
irrelevant for the question at hand.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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