Bug#707851: Proposed changes on menu systems

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Hi Russ,

Le jeudi 27 mars 2014 à 18:47 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : 
> > I note that some important aspect of the XDG specification are not
> > included.  While it is not necessarily a requirement for policy
> > inclusion, it could be helpful to document the .menu files used by
> > desktop environment and how the Categories relates to the menu layout
> > the users will see.
> 
> My impression is that this part of the specification hasn't gotten the
> same level of attention as the desktop file specification, but that's a
> very vague impression.  

I think everything exists in the specification, but someone not familiar
with it will never know where to start. Add to that the fact that in
Debian, we have one menu per desktop environment, which is something
that has been standardized only very recently (and maybe not entirely).

> I'd be curious to hear the opinion of the desktop
> environment maintainers on what we should tell maintainers of packages
> like fvwm who want to integrate with desktop entries.

I think we should ask the parties interested in cheap XDG menu support
to package that:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-menu

and get rid of the Debian menu this way.

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