>>> On 1/15/2010 at 08:39 AM, Katarina Machalkova <[email protected]> wrote: > Hola! > >> In the sled10 timeframe there was discussion about moving to the XDG >> standard for menu generation. See comments 12 and 14 in >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=274974 > >> However that kind of fell through the cracks and was closed for sled10. >> Any thoughts on this for the future ? > > Is this about teaching Qt/ncurses control centres to read XDG-compliant XML > menu structure, living somewhere in /etc/xdg, all that (possibly) using > libgnomemenu?
Exactly. We generated an XDG menu that matched the current layout and it gets layed down in /etc/xdg/menus/YaST-gnome.menu. Of course any time there is a change though the 2 approaches get out of sync and we get bugs like this. > > If so, I consider this to be an useful feature, as it would win us not only > Freedesktop standard conformance (which we currently violate with structure > using Groups .desktop files), but consistency of categorization across > different UIs as well. also one standard way for large deployments to customize the menu. > > But ... for reasons I'd rather not make public, I'm not so optimistic when > it > comes to actual implementation :( Those have nothing to do with > libgnomemenu, > though. Understood. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
