Bug#259400: How to a user can add menu entry for GNOME ?

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le mardi 05 octobre 2004 =E0 15:24 +0200, Bill Allombert a =E9crit :
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:45:17AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> Browsing applications:/// does not show the Debian menu, however.
> Why it is so ?

The distribution menu is not a vfolder but a special part of the code.
It's made with desktop files in /var/lib/gnome/Debian/.=20


> I am must say I am a bit confused by the way menus are handled.

The GNOME applications menu uses desktop files installed. For the moment
this part of code doesn't respect the freedesktop specifications (at
least in the upstream code, some distributions have made work on this).
Upstreams are working on this and GNOME 2.10 will probably use the
freedesktop specs.


> It seems to be a modified version of XDG menu for most part
> but the Debian menu being implement by another scheme.

What's different ?


> This should probably be fixed given than Debian menu handle XDG menu
> quit nicely with the menu-xdg package.

What would you like to change/fix exactly ?



Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher