Bug#484656: Fw: gnome, kde, xfce use non-policy main menu

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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:01:15 +0200
From: Loïc Minier <lool RemoveThis @dooz.org>
To: debian-devel RemoveThis @lists.debian.org, debian-policy RemoveThis @lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: gnome, kde, xfce use non-policy main menu


On Sun, Jul 06, 2008, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2008-07-06, Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag RemoveThis @dottedmag.net> wrote:
> > fd.o menus are designed to allow distro-specific policy. It's the
> > matter of Debian KDE/Gnome packaging/menu policy to get the proper
> > subset of the packages in menu (e.g. moving Gnome/gtk applications
> > deeper in KDE menu and Qt/KDE - in Gnome one).
>
> I actually don't like this - just as I don't like the "kde" and
> "gnome" package sections.
>
> The users should have equal access to good programs.

Are you commenting on OnlyShowIn? This feature is not meant to list
all GNOME-ish apps in GNOME and KDE-ish apps in KDE. It's meant to
prevent some silly things to display across desktops. For instance
"gnome-about" (About GNOME) shouldn't show in the KDE menus, nor should
the configuration applets for window management, keyboard etc. which
touch GNOME specific GConf settings, or nautilus-cd-burner...

There are "only" 47 desktop files with OnlyShowIn on my system out of
218 desktop files installed, so it's not used too wildly I would say.

(Some of these are probably bogus.)

> Most people (no matter what desktop they are using) thinks that
> - amarok is better than the gnome equivalent (rythmbox?)

there isn't "one" GNOME player; I don't know whether amarok is
OnlyShowIn KDE, but Rhythmbox should show up in KDE menus, just like
Banshee and I hope the other players as well (Quodlibet, etc.).

> - gimp is better than the kde equivalent (released versions of krita)
> - kontact and evolution - fits different to different people

These don't have an OnlyShowIn here and should show up in KDE menus.

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Loïc Minier


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