On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 06:54:46PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 17:52, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg02071.html > > > > Could you be so kind as to summarize thoses concerns ? > > The message above is fairly concise, I think. But I can basically sum > it up as: > > I don't see the advantages (besides inertia) of continuing to develop a > Debian-specific menu system, when the rest of the world is moving to the > freedesktop.org standard. Implementing the freedesktop.org standard > gives us a number of things, in particular i18n and significantly less > maintenance burden on Debian developers.
This is more an opinion than a concern. I have already answered about i18n. I am not sure about the maintenance burden on Debian developers. Is there stand-alone implementation of this standard ? I have read it, and I have still difficulty to understand its full implication. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.