Bug#742490: menufile: clarification of using the absolute icon path in menu files
Package: menu Version: 2.1.46 Severity: normal Dear maintainer, please clarify in menufile(5) that Debian's menu files require the absolute icon path to be displayed on the user's desktop. It appears some people believe a relative icon path would be sufficient. See https://bugs.debian.org/738089#17 for an example. The confusion stems from the fact that the man page of menufile states under section NOTES: If you want to specify an icon or hotkey for a sub-menu (for example, the Editors sub-menu), just use the same syntax but leave the command empty: ?package(mypackage):needs=X11 section=Applications icon=icon.xpm hotkey=E title=Editors I think it would help to replace icon=icon.xpm with icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/icon.xpm Regards, Markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#742490: menufile: clarification of using the absolute icon path in menu files
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:41:11PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.46 Severity: normal Dear maintainer, please clarify in menufile(5) that Debian's menu files require the absolute icon path to be displayed on the user's desktop. It appears some people believe a relative icon path would be sufficient. See https://bugs.debian.org/738089#17 for an example. The confusion stems from the fact that the man page of menufile states under section NOTES: Hello Markus, thanks for your bug report, I will update the manpage. The menu convention require an absolute path because not all window managers provide a search path for menu. It is a bit sad people use example as substitute for the specification. Cheers, -- Bill. ballo...@debian.org Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
