Debian menu system update

[Chris Cheney]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:13:09PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 08:39:02PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > How do you expect menu to generate menus without an /etc/menu-method/ 
> > > directory ?  Also autogenerated menus should go in /var.
> > 
> > Oops you are correct, for window managers that don't support the spec
> > natively we still need that directory.
> 
> Then could you answer my original question again ?

As far as I can tell /etc/menu, /usr/lib/menu, and /usr/share/menu will go
away once we start using the desktop entry spec and /usr/share/applications
directory.  Anything natively supporting the desktop spec won't have any
reason to use /etc/menu-method at all (afaik). The desktop menu spec will
probably need an addition of $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/applications/ to replace
debian's /etc/menu that is a global admin menu entry directory.

Chris Cheney
Debian KDE Maintainer

PS - I am cc:ing this to xdg-list so that the proper people can see that
a global applications override directory would be a useful addition.
Please note that I am not subscribed to xdg-list.