Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:46:21AM -0600, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> Is it possible to make use of freedesktop.org's standardization of
> menu layout within Debian? If we find their standard lacking, could we
> lobby them for improvements similar to those listed here?

The freedesktop.org menu draft do not mandate a menu layout. Instead it
mandate 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.

I am not sure it would make sense to standardize a menu layout: such
layout should be decided with respect to the actual set of menu entries
we want to provide instead of abstractly.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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