>>>>> "Nikolaus" == Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> writes:
Nikolaus> On Aug 29 2015, Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> wrote: >> Option D goes further. Option D requires that packages drop >> their traditional menu entries if they ship .desktop files. >> (That's done on a per-application not per-package basis). Nikolaus> That would be a pretty ridiculous situation. So package Nikolaus> maintainers would be free to ship .desktop files as well Nikolaus> menu files for their favorite third menu system, but they Nikolaus> *must not* ship menu files for the traditional debian Nikolaus> menu? correct. Nikolaus> Surely there is no need to single out the traditional menu Nikolaus> as something that must not be used. It's sufficient if Nikolaus> policy mandates the use of .desktop files, anything beyond Nikolaus> that ought to be entirely up to the maintainer. I think the argument in favor of this need is that we're trying to force a transition of the traditional menu to .desktop as a metadata format.