Re: adding desktop files to misc packages
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:07:16 +0200, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> said:
> Le vendredi 27 juillet 2007 à 03:52 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
>> > In the end, the people who know whether an application should be
>> > given tags that will exclude it from certain menus are the
>> > application's maintainers, not the menu systems maintainers. So far
>> > they have been reasonable about what is included in the menu, and I
>> > have no reason to think this wouldn't remain like that.
>>
>> In that case, I guess I'm confused, because I had the impression that
>> you were still opposed to migrating the existing Debian menu to use
>> the freedesktop standard.
> Sorry, that wasn't clear: people are currently reasonable with what
> they include in the *freedesktop* menu. I'm not fond of the idea of
> converting the Debian menu entries because it will lead to including
> all that's currently in the *Debian* menu, which is not reasonable.
> If desktop entries are not generated automatically, and if there are
> clear rules on how they should be tagged, I think only a small number
> of maintainers wouldn't follow them.
Hmm. I am not sure that the results shall be what you think
they will be. Take for example, someone who packages something that has
menu entries (me, for example). Well, such people, like, evidently
think the package enahnces the menu; and thus, if we swithc to using
desktop format by default, I would still want to see my package on the
menu.
So, if you want to keep you menu small and non-comprehensive,
you should not be pushing for f.d.o formatting. :)
manoj
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