Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
Ian Jackson writes (Re: Bug#741573: Two menu systems):
But I'd like to make some specific comments too. (I'm reading
24f00b5:741573_menu_systems/keithp_draft.txt, of which I attach a
copy.)
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Oh, and:
Fourthly: It makes no provision
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
I see Keith has committed a draft to git. As discussed, I disagree
with this approach. This amounts to nonconsensually abolishing
someone's work when it is still being maintained, and the global cost
is minimal.
Right, as I said in the
Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org writes:
* There's no reason that has a .desktop file should imply shows up
in modern desktop environments, and so I think that the question of
coverage is to some extent a red herring; the systems have different
coverage because they've always had
Hi,
Le lundi 30 juin 2014 à 13:59 -0700, Keith Packard a écrit :
One of the arguments that I had heard expressed against supporting
applications shipping .desktop files is that it would reduce the number
of applications offered in existing menu packages; I'm hoping that my
draft addresses
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
The counterpoint here, which I had missed earlier in this discussion, is
the file format for the menus themselves, not the *.desktop files. I
agree with you about the *.desktop file format, but the specification for
the menus is much more complicated.
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes:
One of the problems I have with your proposal, compared to Charles’
original patch, is that it encourages maintainers of hundreds of (IMHO
useless) menu files to port them to the desktop format.
Yeah, there are a lot of inappropriate entries in my
Keith Packard kei...@keithp.com writes:
1. Implement .desktop parsing support in the existing 'menu' package so
that packages providing only .desktop files would be incorporated
into menu programs without further change.
FWIW, it seems there is at least partial support for that
Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org writes:
Keith Packard kei...@keithp.com writes:
1. Implement .desktop parsing support in the existing 'menu' package so
that packages providing only .desktop files would be incorporated
into menu programs without further change.
FWIW, it seems there
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