Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure
Am Sonntag, den 14.05.2006, 21:07 +0200 schrieb Bill Allombert:
> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 08:58:45PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 13.05.2006, 13:26 +0200 schrieb Bill Allombert:
> > I did not check it: IMHO it would make sense to try to be compatible (in
> > parts) with the freedesktop.org menu specification and the structure
> > they propose.
>
> But the freedesktop.org does not propose any structure.
This is not completely true. It defines categories and sub-categories.
There is also a structure. But I agree, that it does not explicitly
define/propose a structure. But I also meant, that you should maybe
think about to be compatible with their category naming.
> Instead it
> mandates a list of categories that should be used by .menu files to build
> menus, the .menu files specifying the layout and the way categories are
> presented to the users. The menu-xdg Debian package provide a
> menu-method that generate a .menu file that implement the Debian menu
> layout in term of the freedesktop.org menu draft.
>
> [[The most observant among you will note this is mostly reprint from an
> earlier post in this buglog]]
Sorry. I just read the posts I got via bugs-dist list. I will read the
complete bug-report.
Regards, Daniel
Reply to: