Dear all, there is an ongoing discussion about the documentation of menu systems on the debian-policy mailing list, which led to proposed changes and it was suggested to give them a better coverage.
On part of the proposal is about the description of the FreeDesktop menu system and its integration on Debian. I think that we have converged to a good wording there. Another part of the proposal is about the description of the Debian menu system. As of today (version 3.9.5), the Policy gives it a central importance. But this ignores the fact that on the majority of the desktop systems running Debian, the Debian menu is deprecated and hidden. Indeed, in Jessie it will not be installed by default anymore by the task-desktop metapackage. Moreover, in the discussion that took place on the debian-policy mailing list, there was hardly some support for the Debian menu altogether. As a consequence, the current proposition is to remove the description of the Debian menu from the Debian policy. The last part describes how to associate media types with file extensions through FreeDesktop menu entries, and how this system coexists with the mailcap system. As the maintainer of the mime-support package, I would be interested to switch even more broadly to the FreeDesktop system, but did not yet find time to implement these changes. Help is welcome ! See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707851#270 for the precise wording of the proposal. I would welcome constructive comments on the patch proposed. By constructive I mean focused (please quote the parts you comment), backed by explanations and, in case of strong objections, some background about what are the stakes of the commenter in the maintenance or use of menu systems and media types. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
