Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: You seem to be framing this as a XDG vs menu formats. I see it in great part as applications showing up on WM/DE or not. The collateral damage from the TC decision are applications, WM/DE and its users from either format.
Only if WMs keep on using the Debian menu instead of the XDG menu. Err, no, the TC has explicitly made it "impossible" for the two systems to coexist, breaking existing support, and forcing maintainers to choose one or other ecosystems, w/o any working solution in sight for WM/DE not supporting the XDG system. Which has made the situation even worse than before, in a very anti social way. You might want to package https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-menu which answers exactly the questions you have been asking. -- Joss