Bug#601139: Overrides for desktop2menu, and add xdg=false

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Wed Feb 3 03:10:12 UTC 2016


On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 08:26:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> I've been annoyed by the fact that the maintainers of some desktop
> environments in Debian have chosen to ignore the Debian menu, chosing
> instead to only ship .desktop files, since it would be much work to
> write and maintain .menu files for all their packages (as opposed to
> .desktop files, which are usually provided by upstream). The unfortunate
> result is that software which supports the Debian menu system now no
> longer shows all applications that should probably show up in a menu.

Given the CTTE decision regarding the Debian menu
(<20150904033414.GD3605 at qor.donarmstring.com>), is this still something
you're interested in?

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>



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