Mark McLoughlin wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 21:46 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
It was brought to my attention (more than once) by a user that KDE and
GNOME each install their own version of:
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
{path varies from system to system}
Clearly this doesn't work if you have both GNOME and KDE installed on
the same system. Obviously, what you want is for the GNOME file and the
KDE file to coexist and be used by their respective desktops.
The intention is that the same menu configuration be shared between
GNOME and KDE. On a system where both GNOME and KDE are installed, there
is no reason to have two menu configurations.
In theory, you are correct, and I do agree with you.
Now, it is true that GNOME and KDE packages install their own menu
configurations in the same place which isn't ideal. One option is that
someone takes it upon themselves to try and define a shared
configuration on freedesktop.org, but failing that its up to
distributors to figure out a shared menu configuration for their
distribution.
But, as you say, in practice, different desktops install different menu
structures. Until we can agree on such a shared menu structure, we need
to deal with the fact that we need to support different menu structures
for different desktops.
--
JRT
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