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Re: adding desktop files to misc packages



Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> writes:

> 3. The actual contents and structure of the default menu in each WM etc.
> This is a matter of Policy and ENTIRELY orthogonal to issues 1 and 2.
> In particular, just saying "we're going to use the FDo format now" does
> nothing to prevent the kind of mess you see in the Debian menu. OTOH,
> setting an acceptable policy would clean up not only the GNOME menu but
> all the other menu systems.

Except that the freedesktop.org specification comes with its own set of
categories, registration system, and classification system, which does not
match the Debian system.  I suppose we could use the format without using
its categorization system, but that seems a bit strange and Debian's
current menu structure doesn't have the concept of primary and additional
categories the way that the freedesktop.org specification does.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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