On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Brian J. Tarricone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Not that I fundamentally disagree; I see no reason why Link items >> shouldn't be allowed in menus, aside from just increasing complexity of >> the implementation (which is generally pretty damned complex as it is).
The code handling the contents of a desktop entry shouldn't have to know where the entry came from. This worked in older versions of Gnome, but apparently got taken out because the spec disallowed it, not because it was too complex. > Well I do. XDG menus are task-oriented and sticking 666 "limited > offer!!!11!one install bundled app" links per app into there is a bad > idea. And that's what ISVs use the link entries for. Documentation > should be accessible from the application itself so no separate entry > there. Ditto for homepage. Putting such links on the desktop - where they will work - is much worse IMO. And Wine has to support Windows applications that put them into menus. Menu URL links would be useful for when you want a menu link to your web mail account, or any web<->desktop integration project, eg. Mozilla Prism. Also, disallowing Type=Link for undocumented reasons doesn't stop people using Type=Application with firefox or xdg-open, it just annoys developers, creates bugs for users, and makes the menu implementation or spec look broken. > -- > Patryk Zawadzki > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > Damjan Jovanovic _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
