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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:21:01 +0100
Bjoern Michaelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:00:00 +0100
> Heinrich Wendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Am Saturday 13 December 2003 16:32 schrieb Bj�rn Michaelsen:
> > > How will be determined for with desktops .desktop files have to be
> > > processed? Is a virtual (like for mtas) maybe able to handle this?
> > 
> > Sorry, but i don't understand what you mean.
> There needs to be a plan on how to implement the menu in different
> DE/WMs. But I for example am not using KDE, and portage needs to know
> that it does not need to create a menu for kde. Should this be handled
> by something like java-config or will portage check for every
> installed DEs/WMs and generate a menu fro it? What happens when a
> DE/WM is installed after all other software ?
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The point about .desktop files is that the data is generic. You never
really -generate- a menu. You have a file, and make sure that all tools
(gnome,kde,*box, windowmaker , xfce, whatnot)  understand and read this
file, and merge it into their own menu.


some more reading might be required, freedesktop.org has the menu spec
and the desktop spec.

//Spider

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