Re: Distribution-specific menu [Was: "Main Menu" layout]

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 07:50, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 17:31, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Jeff Waugh">
> > 
> > > Also, can we nuke the distribution-specific menu now?
> > 
> > Okay, so, which distributions actually use this?
> > 
> > Debian does, but if you don't have the 'menu' package installed, it has an
> > empty menu. If you do have the 'menu' package installed, it shows the yucky
> > Debian menus. Nasty, nasty business.
> 
> Many GNOME (sadly) users demand the Debian menu be present, which is
> fair enough.

	It should be possible to do it by modifying Debian's menu vfolder.

>   I'd really like to know that if GNOME 2.8 didn't have the
> distribution menu, it totally supported the new menu specification so
> that Debian can point at the files created by menu-xdg (which use the
> menu spec at
> http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/menu-0.8.dtd).

	No guarantees it'll happen for 2.8, but there is a plan:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-May/msg00232.html

Cheers,
Mark.