Frederic Crozat wrote:
> It is planned (I really want to kill both menu and menudrake packages) but
> currently both KDE and GNOME are not fully supporting freedesktop.org menu
> spec (this is why RH has disabled menu editing in both RH8 and RH9)..
> Havoc plan to rewrite menu support in GNOME for 2.4.. I think KDE has
> now the support for the spec but we can expect some problems between both
> systems since these are using different implementations of the same spec.

Ah, ha! Good to know. I had gotten the impression that G2.4/K3.next would
finally be in sync. Unfortunate, but nice to know that it's not quite there.

> So, the safest way is to wait until both environment have working
> freedesktop.org menu support, and I don't plan to switch Mdk to this
> system for 9.2 (also because our menu system is also managing MIME types
> and the new MIME spec is not implemented everywhere..)

I hadn't realized that MIME was taken care of by the mdk menus. Huh. Smart
move not to convert yet, then... :)

Thanks for the concrete info. Here's looking forward to the others using
unified resources in the near future...

- John


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