On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:57:29PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote: | > Because you gain *nothing* | | Are you claiming that everyone who says that .desktop has technical | advantages is a liar? These features actually do not exist in the | desktop format? (It may be so; I have no firsthand information, but it | does sound far out).
Most of the advantages of .desktop that I am aware of are currently vapourware - i.e. they're in the specs on the freedesktop.org site, but not yet implemented in KDE and Gnome. However, since both KDE and Gnome developers helped to write the specs in question, it seems not altogether unreasonable to expect some kind of implementation of them in the future. Internationalisation is the big one that's here already, and IMHO should be added to the Debian menu system regardless of any outcome w.r.t. freedesktop. The relevant pages on the freedesktop.org site are: http://freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html http://freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec/menu-spec-0.8.html Cameron.