RE: Debian support for XDG_MENU_PREFIX under GNOME
Le lundi 04 décembre 2006 à 20:54 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
>> > That's the straightforward part. The hairy part is that
>> > XDG_MENU_PREFIX must _NOT_ be applied to the applications-merged
>> > directory. The rationale for this is that third party applications
>> > should be able to install menu extension in applications-merged that
>> > apply regardless of the desktop environment used. So far Debian
>> > did/does not follow this part of the specification and used/uses
>> > "gnome-appplications-merged" and "kde-applications-merged" instead of
>> > "applications-merged". Kevin Krammer recently patched KDE 3.5.x to
>> > correct this behavior for KDE under Debian. I was wondering whether
>> > this problem has been addressed at the GNOME side as well?
>>
>> Indeed, as gnome-menus expands the menu name based on the patched name,
>> it is reading gnome-applications-merged.menu.
>>
>> I'm all for patching gnome-menus (as well as gnome-panel and bug-buddy
>> if necessary) to read applications-merged.menu instead of
>> gnome-applications-merged.menu if this can help, but this will *not* be
>> done with an environment variable.
>
>I've committed all relevant changes (-menus, -panel, bug-buddy, eel2) to
>our SVN.
>
>The implementation is a bit hackish but it will avoid extraneous
>conflicts: first, the library looks for gnome-applications.menu, and
>falls back to applications.menu if the former doesn't exist. The merged
>directory is applications-merged in both cases.
Excellent, thank you so much.
Cheers,
Waldo
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