On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 12:20 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Sam Morris wrote: > > It was particularly useful for: > > > > * finding out where in the menu a given application lives in my guise > > as an end-user who just installed a new > > application. > > I usually look at the menu for this, guessing where it will be :)
This is not convenient. Sometimes a desktop entry will show up with the correct icon, sometimes it will not. Sometimes the menu entry will be named after the application installed, sometimes it will be a generic name, and sometimes it will be something totally different. Sometimes it will appear under Preferences, sometimes it will appear under Adminstration and sometimes it will appear under Programs. As an end-user I find gnome-menu-spec very useful for revealing where on the menu a program is. As a system administrator I find it extremley useful when debugging custom menu entries, custom menu categories, etc. And also it's very useful when doing tech support over the phone to be able to ssh into the machine the user is in front of, and run gnome-menu-spec-test to find out where a menu item is--the variations listed above, and more, make it almost impossible to find applications on the menu sometimes. > > > > > * debugging .menu and .desktop files while developing a new application > > or packaging one for Debian. > > For .desktop files there's desktop-file-validate in desktop-file-utils. I > don't > know if there's any other alternative for .menu files, but if there is I'd say > we could leave without this. This tells me that my .desktop file is syntactically correct, but it does not indicate where on the menu it appears! > -- Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
