Re: menu-xdg removal
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 11:23:34PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after reading this on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Wheezy
>
> "KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (502192). The menu-xdg maintainer do not want
> to fix it. An alternative is to not install menu-xdg at all, removing the
> Debian submenu from KDE. "
>
> and then reading #502192, and after that having looked at the menus of kde,
> gnome and xfce, I'm in favor of removing the menu-xdg package from desktop-
> kde:
>
> - its redudant (as everything relevant is in other menus)
> - it reduces user-stress-due-to-too-many-choices
> - its ugly (folder icons are missing)
> - and its not consistent as its only enabled in kde
>
> As such I will now remove menu-xdg from desktop-kde. If some user
> really wants it, "apt-get install menu-xdg" is really easy - the
> average user will be happy that its gone as the menu system will
> become easier to understand and more similar accross different
> desktops.
A consequence will of course be that some packages missing desktop
files but with Debian menu files will disappear from the KDE menu. A
list of such packages can be generated like tihs:
root@skolelinuxtest:~# /usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/missing-desktop-file
package menu got menu but no desktop file
package aptitude got menu but no desktop file
package bash got menu but no desktop file
package bc got menu but no desktop file
package dash got menu but no desktop file
package dc got menu but no desktop file
package ddccontrol got menu but no desktop file
package deborphan got menu but no desktop file
package dia-gnome got menu but no desktop file
package gdb got menu but no desktop file
package gnuchess got menu but no desktop file
package gnugo got menu but no desktop file
package gnuplot-nox got menu but no desktop file
package guile-1.8 got menu but no desktop file
package info got menu but no desktop file
package lmms-common got menu but no desktop file
package nano got menu but no desktop file
package ncftp got menu but no desktop file
package planner got menu but no desktop file
package procps got menu but no desktop file
package psmisc got menu but no desktop file
package ruby1.8 got menu but no desktop file
package sane got menu but no desktop file
package stk got menu but no desktop file
package tasksel got menu but no desktop file
package tcl8.4 got menu but no desktop file
package tcl8.5 got menu but no desktop file
package texlive-base got menu but no desktop file
package tilp2 got menu but no desktop file
package timidity got menu but no desktop file
package tk8.4 got menu but no desktop file
package tk8.5 got menu but no desktop file
package wordnet-gui got menu but no desktop file
package x11-apps got menu but no desktop file
package x11-utils got menu but no desktop file
package x11-xserver-utils got menu but no desktop file
package xdrawchem got menu but no desktop file
package xjig got menu but no desktop file
package xplanet got menu but no desktop file
package xsok got menu but no desktop file
root@skolelinuxtest:~#
I believe lmms and dia are false positives (menu and desktop files in
different packages), and the only real gui applications left are
planner, xdrawchem, xjig and xsok. I'm not sure we will miss them.
Thus, I am fine with dropping menu-xdg from the KDE setup. But if we
do, we might as well drop the packages planner, xdrawchem, xjib and
xsok from our default installation.
--
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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