Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
> On 13-05-13 10:02, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Packages can, to be compatible with Debian additions to some
>> legacy window managers, also provide a menu file. Such menu
>> entries should follow the Debian menu policy, which can be found
>> in the menu-policy files in the debian-policy package. It is
>> also available from the Debian web mirrors
>> at /doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/.
> If we're going to suggest desktop files in policy, I would rather prefer
> that we change window managers to read desktop files instead of menu
> files, and remove this suggestion altogether. Having two ways to specify
> menu entries means you'll get two half menus rather than one whole,
> which isn't a good idea.
So would everyone else, but no one has done the work. I think enough
years have gone by that it doesn't make sense to keep waiting for someone
to volunteer to do this work for the less common window managers like
fvwm.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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