Your message dated Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:33:24 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#431118: menu: transition to XDG *.desktop menu system
has caused the Debian Bug report #431118,
regarding menu: transition to XDG *.desktop menu system
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Package: menu
Version: 2.1.33
Severity: wishlist
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Given how the XDG format is derivated from Debian's own menu and has become
standard accross the board on a wide variety of desktop environments and window
managers, migrating Debian's menu system to XDG would be extremely desirable.
For one thing, this would save maintainers of applications packages lot of work
in creating menu entries and in patching upstream WM code to support Debian's
own
menu system. Once the transition is done, they would be leveraging the existing
XDG menu entry that is included in upstream packages.
Likewise, migrating every WM's menu support to XDG can be readily accomplished
by
borrowing code from a plethora of possible sources, such as GNOME and KDE. Heck,
many other window managers can already support the XDG standard out of the box.
Granted, the transition period will make a few teeth grind, but we only need to
do this once. Afterwards, we will only be supporting the standard.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-lx (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages menu depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
menu recommends no packages.
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 12:08:39AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Package: menu
> Version: 2.1.33
> Severity: wishlist
>
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> Given how the XDG format is derivated from Debian's own menu and has become
> standard accross the board on a wide variety of desktop environments and
> window managers, migrating Debian's menu system to XDG would be extremely
> desirable.
>
> For one thing, this would save maintainers of applications packages lot of
> work in creating menu entries and in patching upstream WM code to support
> Debian's own menu system. Once the transition is done, they would be
> leveraging the existing
> XDG menu entry that is included in upstream packages.
>
> Likewise, migrating every WM's menu support to XDG can be readily
> accomplished by borrowing code from a plethora of possible sources, such as
> GNOME and KDE. Heck,
> many other window managers can already support the XDG standard out of the
> box.
>
> Granted, the transition period will make a few teeth grind, but we only need
> to do this once. Afterwards, we will only be supporting the standard.
I am wary to argue why the Debian menu system is way better than the XDG
menu draft. I will simply discuss what you are asking for:
1) Window managers should be changed to implement the XDG menu draft.
2) Packages should provides .desktop files
Neither 1) and 2) require a single line of change in the menu package,
so it is a bit pointless to report this bug against menu, and so I
am closing this report.
Cheers,
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Bill. <[email protected]>
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