On 2008-07-09, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:11:54PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > Anybody know of any other concrete worries? > > There's also the ?package field (pretty basic, doesn't always match > the enclosing package)
TryExec in .desktop, though that looks at binaries not packages and is thus not exactly the same > and the hints. These would be Categories in .desktop (the actual mapping from categories to a specific hierarchy is specified in the applications.menu file) > > On 2008-07-09, Chris Waters wrote: > > > Debian menus are generated. There's no advantage in generating them > > > from .desktop files, > > > > the advantage would be that for the growing amount of programs for > > which upstream already includes .desktop files (complete with > > translations), Debian doesn't need to create/maintain one. > > We'd still have to review them to make sure they meet policy (and > that, for example, the ?package field is set correctly), and we still > have to generate menus, meaning the input format still doesn't matter. > If you want to take advantage of upstream's work in such cases, the > simpler thing to do would be to create a tool that converts .desktop > files into Debian menu files. That should be _at least_ 100x less > work than rewriting the whole menu generator yet again. true -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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