>>> 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.


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