[Portland] xdg-menu copies .desktop file

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Thu Apr 6 16:08:56 EEST 2006


On 4/5/06, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
> > I think that's the key point here.  Any reasonable app will be
> > packaged as an rpm/deb, or have an uninstaller that also removes
> > the menu item.  Thus the menu item will already
> > get removed when it should; we don't need another
> > mechanism to handle that.
>
>  What's the point of having xdg-menu at all then?

xdg-menu is how the app's postinstall and uninstall scripts
will create and remove the menu item, of course.
- Dan



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