Hi Colin, * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-30 20:00:30]: > > 1) The sections that are normally used within the Category field in a > > .desktop > > file isn't the same as with menu. Here I have decided to make menu > > automatically convert a category into menus system. E.g. Category: > > Application;WordProcessor will be changed to Apps/Editors. > > Right, we'll need a mapping to transition. But honestly, I think we > should take this opportunity to revamp our menu categories too.
I'll let someone else take the initiative and decision about that. I want to mainly concentrate on the code part. > > 3) The current menu files has a "package" field to designate which > > package must be installed before the menu file will be used. In our > > .desktop files, this field will be named X-Menu-Package. But I'm unsure > > whether we should still require this field. Not requiring it might break > > some menu entries; but requiring it will force us to change upstreams > > .desktop files with the addition of X-Menu-Package. > > Probably what we should do to transition this is to get a list of all > the files in /{,usr/}{,s}bin/, and put that in the TryExec field. What > do you think? Hmm, that might be a good solution. I wonder whether it will have any pitfalls comparing to the package field dependency. - Morten.