XDG Menus GNOME vs. KDE

[Travis Watkins]

On 6/9/05, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> wrote:
> CORRECTED POSTING.
> KDE installs:
> 
>         applications.menu
>         kde-information.menu
>         kde-screensavers.menu
>         kde-settings.menu
>         applications-merged/kde-essential.menu
>         applications-merged/kde-multimedia-music.menu
> 
> and then if you edit the menu:
> 
>         applications-merged/applications-kmenuedit.menu
> 
> So, your suggestion would seem to be compatible with the current KDE
> practice -- only two would need to be renamed, the first one:
> "applications.menu" as you suggest, and the menu edit file.
> 
> But, I wonder about how software would parse this.  In the "menu"
> directory, there is no problem, the menu would only use the files that
> started with "kde-", which the program would know.
> 
> But, I have added:
> 
>         applications-merged/Engineering.menu
>         applications-merged/misc.menu
>         applications-merged/xwp-office.menu
> 
> as you can see, the third one could be a problem.  Is there a desktop
> called: "xwp"?  So, I would suggest that if we are going to do it by
> prefix that this be setup like this (in my example):
> 
>         kde-applications.menu
>         kde-information.menu
>         kde-screensavers.menu
>         kde-settings.menu
>         kde-applications-merged/essential.menu
>         kde-applications-merged/multimedia-music.menu
>         kde-applications-merged/applications-menuedit.menu
>         applications-merged/Engineering.menu
>         applications-merged/misc.menu
>         applications-merged/xwp-office.menu
> 
> and there is no ambiguity even though the parser doesn't know the names
> of all the desktops.  All it needs to know for KDE is: "kde" and
> "applications".  The last three would be used by all desktops.
> 
> --
> JRT
> 

This sounds even better to me. Anyone else have any comments on it?

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Travis Watkins
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