(Your last mail was not sent to the BTS but to the ML directly) On Tue, 14 May 2013, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I didn't mean to imply someone other than the relevant UI maintainers > would need to write code for this to happen; we could simply add some > wording along the lines of > > packages that install desktop files must emit the > ``desktop-files-installed'' trigger from their postinst (e.g., by > running ``dpkg-trigger desktop-files-installed''), so that user > interfaces which don't support desktop files directly can listen to > this trigger and update their menus.
A file trigger on /usr/share/applications does exactly that. There's no need to formalize anything more IMO. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130515062310.ga30...@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com
