Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 02:04:01AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi Russ, hi Sune,
>
> I'd like to second this request to reword the current section in the
> policy regarding menu files, suggesting fdo .desktop files as the
> recommended mechanism and make it clear that .menu files are only really
> relevant for legacy or more exotic window managers.
> Sune's patch looks fine to me.
>
> As Sune already pointed out, the addition of menu-xdg actually is
> harmful in case of modern DEs like KDE or GNOME, where the entries
> generated via menu-xdg, duplicate a lot of existing entries, with no
> icons or low res bitmaps, not translations etc and clutter it up in a
> very bad way.
> In GNOME shell this even leads to wrong application tracking, if the
> wrong menu entry is chosen. That's why we decided to actively hide the
> Debian menu.
>
> Regarding the same issue, I talked to Christian, as tasksel
> co-maintainer, a while ago, to drop menu from the desktop task. If my
> memory serves me well, he basically agreed, but was worried, that my
> request came rather late into the wheezy release, so I've filed [1] and
> hope we can resolve that for jessie.
Eight months later we're now in the jessie cycle. Can we drop menu from
the desktop task now?
Cheers,
Moritz
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