Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:50:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
Because this is not possible. The XDG menu specification requires funky stuff like
XSLT processing which are not compatible with the spirit of a lightweight window
manager.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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