Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files
On Sunday 12 May 2013 12:09:28 Charles Plessy wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> here are a few clarification in addition to the answer from Russ. I assume
> that, as for Gnome, it is possible for KDE to hide the whole Debian menu if
> wanted, so the question is about possible proliferation of FreeDestkop
> entries.
Thank you for the clarification. for Gnome, the disabling is very hardcoded in
the sources. "nothing coming from menu-xdg will ever be shown". I have been
considering something similar in KDE-land.
> For 1) it could be any directive such as:
I'm not sure I see the need for any such directives.
>
> For 2), in the case of FreeDesktop, it is the link to the spec.
>
> For 3), it is a brief explanation that the entries should be deposited
> in /usr/share/applications, and that the packages should not depend
> or recommend desktop-file-utils, nor call its functions in their postinst,
> because there are Dpkg triggers for this.
I'll try to cook up something around this.
> If there are other or similar recommendations, for instance regarding the
> icon files, etc., please let us know.
The desktop file spec references the icon spec. I'm not sure if we should be
more explicit than that. Maybe mentioning a basedir.
/Sune
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I cannot get access over the hard disk from the drawer menu within Explorer,
how does it work?
You have to enable a board for renaming the desktop of the pointer.
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