On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:18:27AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > Is the Debian menu system going to convert to using the freedesktop > > > menu spec? > > > > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu/draft/menu-spec/menu-spec.html > > > > > > As far as I know both Gnome and KDE follow it and possibly others. > > > > I have read this standard again and again and I have trouble to > > see how far it is relevant to the Debian menu system: > > Primarily because the rest of the world has settled on the .desktop > format as the standard for menus. The whole idea with .desktop was to > supplant the myriad incompatible menu systems used by various > distributors.
It's very nice to see that the rest of the world has been kind enough not to tell anything about deploying this to our menu system maintainer. :P -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.