Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030417 03:30]: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:10:58PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > > > We have at least three parallel menu systems around: the Debian Menu, > > > the Gnome Foot Menu and the KDE menu. > > We have one menu system: the Debian menu. > > And we h

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-16 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:10:58PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > We have at least three parallel menu systems around: the Debian Menu, > > the Gnome Foot Menu and the KDE menu. > We have one menu system: the Debian menu. > And we have several programs with menus, like Gnome, KDE, fvwm, icewm,

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 11:10, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > So instead of using a system that works and can do what we need > (with the exception of generating KDE-menus, though I do not see > the fault in our system here), The current menu system doesn't support i18n for one thing. Anyways, there

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030416 15:38]: > > > With all the new anvances in Linux Desktop tecnologies, it seems like > > > the current menu system needs some redesign to keep up and integrate > > > with the other existing systems. > > Please explain this phrase. Ecspecially the "other exis

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-16 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:38:57PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > > I would like to propose that we switch to the freedesktop.org .menu > > > format for desktop entries, and we keep providing menu informations for > > > applications that do not provide one on their own. > > Wasn't Chris Lawrence

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-16 Thread Enrico Zini
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 08:21:03PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > With all the new anvances in Linux Desktop tecnologies, it seems like > > the current menu system needs some redesign to keep up and integrate > > with the other existing systems. > Please explain this phrase. Ecspecially the "o

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 01:58:12PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 12:16, Enrico Zini wrote: > > > I would like to propose that we switch to the freedesktop.org .menu > > format for desktop entries, and we keep providing menu informations for > > applications that do not provid

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030410 18:51]: > With all the new anvances in Linux Desktop tecnologies, it seems like > the current menu system needs some redesign to keep up and integrate > with the other existing systems. Please explain this phrase. Ecspecially the "other existing systems".

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-10 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 12:16, Enrico Zini wrote: > I would like to propose that we switch to the freedesktop.org .menu > format for desktop entries, and we keep providing menu informations for > applications that do not provide one on their own. Wasn't Chris Lawrence working on this? Or maybe he

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-10 Thread MichaƂ Politowski
One minor point: On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:16:25 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: [...] > The former seems to be one the way to to overcome the limitations of the > existing systems, where Mozilla is a web browser, an HTML editor and a > mail reader, but can only be found under one arbitrary entry of those

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-10 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Ciao Enrico, On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Enrico Zini wrote: > The advantages would be to adhere to an existing, open standard (and > push it), to provide a better system (with multiple cathegories and menu > translations) and to better integrate with the desktop environments we > package. The latter i

[desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-10 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello. With all the new anvances in Linux Desktop tecnologies, it seems like the current menu system needs some redesign to keep up and integrate with the other existing systems. Since the desktop menu problem is shared with at least the Gnome and KDE people, I've asked in the gnome-usability lis