menu spec: [menu-file-basename]-merged directory

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hi,

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 19:48 +0000, Matt Kynaston wrote:


> I'm in the v. early stages of adding editing capabilities to pyxdg,
> and I've just been reading the "menu editing with multiple menu
> editors" thread from back in Feb:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-February/005937.html

	I'm pretty sure we've come to the conclusion that editors should create
a toplevel applications.menu in ~/.config/menus along the lines of:

---
<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">

<Menu>
  <Name>Applications</Name>

  <MergeFile>/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menus</MergeFile>

</Menu>
---

	That's the suggested method in the spec too.

	Note, we'll be adding an attribute to <MergeFile> to make it ignore the
path name and just look up the parent .menu file according to
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. There's a recent thread on xdg-list about that.

Cheers,
Mark.