MenuSpec: deprecate <Deleted/> tag

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Tue Jun 7 06:30:44 EEST 2005


On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 19:04 +0200, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> On Friday 03 June 2005 20:16, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I propose to deprecate the <Deleted/>/<NotDeleted/> tags. They were
> > intended to allow menu-editing. But there are also the NoDisplay and Hidden
> > Tags in the .directory of a menu. This can cause confusing and bugs when
> > writing a menu editor. Those i vote for keeping only the tags in the
> > .directory files.
> 
> Attached is the proposed patch, will apply it within 7 days if nobody replies.
> 

It is much more useful if you can edit the menus purely by changing the
XML files. Creating or editing .desktop/.directory files is a lot
harder.

Please don't apply this.

Havoc





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