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On Friday 30 May 2003 00:58, Svyatogor wrote: |
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> > Anyway, what about the freedesktop.org standard for .desktop files? It |
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> > has some very nice features such as multiple categories per item, |
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> > multilpe-language descriptions, etc. More importantly, both kde and gnome |
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> > will use that standard in their next releases (maybe gnome already does, |
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> > not sure). So why don't we build on top of that? Other people in other |
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> > distros, as well as the developers of various packages and of WMs other |
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> > than kde and gnome, will surely be adding support for it in the future. |
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> > Why do we want yet another custom system? How is it better than what |
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> > freedesktop.org has (with perhaps portage-centric tools written to make |
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> > things easier)? |
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> I'm not really sure what you mean. But if I got it right I guess we could |
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> use their specification for the central menu, while it does not change the |
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> idea of generating wm-specific menu through the foo.menu script. At leasr |
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> while 99% of window managers do not support it directly :) |
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Yes, that's what I meant. It's at |
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http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu/draft/menu-spec/menu-spec.html and |
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is only a draft so far, but kde and gnome already agree on it (they just |
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might jointly modify it a bit in the future). It's as good in itself as any |
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other proposal, I'd say, since we don't have to use all the advanced |
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features... |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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