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Bug#128681: marked as done ([PROPOSAL]: Debian Menu Policy)

Your message dated Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:04:04 -0700
with message-id <87bqecknu3.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
and subject line Bug#128681: [PROPOSAL]: Debian Menu Policy
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: menu
Version: 2.1.5-10

The Debian menu contents seem to lack any concept:

   * nautilus is in System and the Gnome Menu Editor is in Tools
   * Tools is much too long
   * some entries are names after filename ("nautilus"), some after
     their name ("Gnome Menu Edtior"). This is especially bad, because
     in GNOME, all capitalized names come before those with lower case.
In short they are in a sorrow state and desperately need someone to massively extend the policy <http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/ch2.html> and enforce it.

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The original bug raised three issues:

   * nautilus is in System and the Gnome Menu Editor is in Tools
   * Tools is much too long
   * some entries are names after filename ("nautilus"), some after
     their name ("Gnome Menu Edtior"). This is especially bad, because
     in GNOME, all capitalized names come before those with lower case.

The new menu structure adopted recently will hopefully fix the first two
points.  For the third point, the menu manual recommends properly
capitalizing the title, and it's reasonable to put something in Menu
Policy recommending how to write title and longtitle.  However, this is a
mixed report with several issues and doesn't include a concrete proposal.

I'm therefore closing this particular report, but if someone else would
like to make a concrete proposal for title and longtitle policy or
recommendations, please feel free to open a new Policy bug with that
proposal.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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