On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:41:11PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > Package: menu > Version: 2.1.46 > Severity: normal > > Dear maintainer, > > please clarify in menufile(5) that Debian's menu files require the > absolute icon path to be displayed on the user's desktop. It appears > some people believe a relative icon path would be sufficient. See > > https://bugs.debian.org/738089#17 > > for an example. The confusion stems from the fact that the man page of > menufile states under section NOTES:
Hello Markus, thanks for your bug report, I will update the manpage. The menu convention require an absolute path because not all window managers provide a search path for menu. It is a bit sad people use example as substitute for the specification. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
