Hi, I am the maintainer (and author) of the webhttrack package (http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/webhttrack.html) and a fresh Debian Developper, and I have a question regarding the packaging policy for packages that fit multiple window manager environments.
webhttrack is a web frontend to httrack (a website copier), and rely on www-browser to work: - the user launches the program - an internal and temporary webserver is setup - the default browser (www-browser, or sensible-browser related browser) is then launched with the newly created server - the user is then able to use the program It is convenient to have a direct shortcut to launch the application (this package was mainly created for beginners who can not/don't want to use the commandline version, and the use should be as simple as possible). For that, I added two specific items: For the gnome desktop entry: /usr/share/gnome/apps/Internet/WebHTTrack.desktop And the "standard" menu entry: /usr/lib/menu/webhttrack But I imagine that this isn't very clean, especially if no window environment is installed (/usr/share/gnome will be created specifically and will not be used) ; so my question is: - should I stick with the current method (I think this is the best option imho) - should I detect in "live" if there is a window environment installed? (but what if the user installs it after this package?) I could also create multiple packages (-gnome, -xxx) but this would be rather overkill (complexity for users?) for a single menu entry
