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Re: Debian/Gnome menu



2004-03-22 18:19, Ross Burton:
> On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:38, Mark Howard wrote:
> > Even if nothing is being done to improve the menu package, or possibly
> > standardise it, I think that a lot can be done from the gnome side of
> > things right now. Why do we have a separate Debian section at the bottom
> > of the menu? Why isn't it integrated into the main sections of the menu?
> 
> The main section of the menu is the Freedesktop vFolder/Menu
> specification.  The Debian/ tree is the distro-specific Debian menu
> files stuff.
> 
> Personally I wouldn't like to see the Debian menu integrated into the
> GNOME menu, I feel the GNOME menu categories are superior, and contain
> far less junk items (the Debian menu contains xlogo, xsetroot, xedit,
> dc, orphaner, etc).

I agree.  The Debian menu has many apps which are not well
GNOME-integrated.  

IMHO if an app is considered useful in GNOME menu, installing a .desktop
file is better than integrating the whole Debian menu tree into the
GNOME one.


-- 
Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@debian.org>



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