MenuSpec: deprecate <Deleted/> tag

[Heinrich Wendel]

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 11:48, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Waldo Bastian 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.
> >
> > I am not convinced about that. It will typically mean that in order to
> > delete a sub-menu, you will need to create a .directory file for that
> > sub-menu while at the moment it is a matter of adding a line to the menu
> > file. This change will not have any meaningful impact in the near future
> > anyway because even though they are deprecated, implementations will
> > still need to process the <Deleted/>/<NotDeleted/> tags correctly.
>
> Yes, in most cases, the: "*.directory" file that needs the tag added to
> it doesn't exist.  So, a local copy must first be created.
>
> I agree that it is better to add this information to a: "*.menu" file.
> This is better because the menu can be modified with the menu editor
> without changing the VFS directory files.
>
> What I see as the major problem is what happens if you are using two
> desktops.  If you have separate: XDG_CONFIG_DIRS directories for the two
> desktops, deleting a sum-menu on one desktop does NOT change it on the
> other desktops.  But, if you put a tag in the "*.desktop" file, it also
> deletes the sub-menu on other desktops.

Shouldn't be an issue, since XDG_CONFIG_HOME is where the changes are saved 
and this one should be the same across desktops.

> So, if anything is to be deprecated, I think that it would be the use
> of: "NoDisplay" & "Hidden" tags to change the menu structure.
>
> It also happens that users totally screw up their menu with the menu
> editor and with the current system, they can just delete the (ONE) file
> to return it to default.

Not completly, there still might be files with the same desktop-file-id in 
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/applications which will not be reverted.

mfg, heinrich :-)