On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:43:59 +0700 Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net> wrote: > Twas brillig at 18:52:35 06.07.2008 UTC-04 when cshore@fionavar.ca > did gyre and gimble: > > >> fd.o menus are designed to allow distro-specific policy. It's the > >> matter of Debian KDE/Gnome packaging/menu policy to get the proper > >> subset of the packages in menu (e.g. moving Gnome/gtk applications > >> deeper in KDE menu and Qt/KDE - in Gnome one). > > DD> But that's just the point; there is no policy. > > And that's the problem need to be solved, not the fd.o menu system or > Ubuntu MOTU - misusing the spec does not give the right to anyone to > blame spec or those who follow it. > I mean I mostly concur; the spec is insufficiently defined for our purposes so part of the policy proposal will be polishing the spec as we use it in debian. And the misuse of the spec is a consequence of a perceived need for information that the spec doesn't provide, so we need to make that information available on a debian-wide way (so kde .desktop aren't only for kde, for instance, and ditto gnome). Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com
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