On 8/19/07, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 06:02:55PM -0700, Jordan Mantha a écrit : > > > > I wrote the freedesktop.org xdg mailing list about this issue back in > > June [1]. My proposal was to romote Science to a main category. There > > was concern about how to deal with legacy issues. What happens if > > somebody installs a .desktop on an "older" distro (say etch or Fedora > > Core 6)? > > Hi all, > > I think that I do not get the point : isn't the concept of a distro to > install programs through packages? If somebody backports a recent > program to FC6 or Debian Etch, then it is straightforward to patch the > .desktop file to add `Application' back.
I believe the concern was not distro supplied packages, but rather new upstream releases being installed on "legacy" systems. So if I was running etch and I built some app from source, either because it doesn't exist in Debian or I wanted a newer version than what exists in the repos, the concern was how the menu item would be handled. I personally think that this is enough of a corner case that it shouldn't stand in the way of progress. -Jordan
