Menu Spec: including files & absolute paths

[Heinrich Wendel]

On Friday 18 March 2005 10:19, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> [Resend for archiving purposes]
>
> On Wednesday 09 March 2005 14:47, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:31, you wrote:
> > > > To solve this issue in a backwards compatible way I suggest to add an
> > > > argument to the <MergeFile> element that indicates that if the file
> > > > that contains the element is a file relative to
> > > > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS the same file further up the search
> > > > path should be merged instead of the file that is specified in the
> > > > <MergeFile> element. I propose to call this argument "parent".
> > >
> > > 	How about just <MergeParent/> ?
> >
> > Well, yes, problem with that is that old code will not understand it all.
> > The question is of course how you would like your old code to fail: by
> > not including a parent menu at all, or by potentially including the wrong
> > menu. I think the latter will affect less people.
> >
> > > 	Whatever we call it, I think we're all agreed we need it anyway :-)
> >
> > If we can then now agree on a name we can move on :-)
>
> Please consider the following patch to the menu-spec. I would like to hear
> your feedback.
>
> If I don't get feedback I assume there is no objection and I will commit
> the change on tuesday March 22.

Haven't looked through the content yet, but shouldn't it be version 0.10 
instead of 1.0?

>
> Cheers,
> Waldo
mfg, heinrich :)