Menu-Spec and nested AppDirs

[Heinrich Wendel]

Hi,

While writing a MenuEditor component for pyxdg I ran into the following 
problem. Take the following menu file:

<Menu>
  <Name>Applications</Name>
  <DefaultAppDirs/>
  <DefaultDirectoryDirs/>
  <Menu>
    <Name>Editors</Name>
    <Include>
      <Filename>gedit.desktop</Filename>
    </Include>
  </Menu>
  <Menu>
    <Name>Debian</Name>
    <AppDir>/usr/share/debian/applications</AppDir>
    <Include>
        <Filename>vim.desktop</Filename>
    </Include>
  </Menu>
</Menu>

This works fine as long as you don't try to edit things.

First try to edit vim.desktop, but what happens? You can't edit it 
because /usr/share/debian/applications will have a higher priority than the 
users settings.

Second Try to move vim.desktop by excluding it in the debian menu and 
includnig it in the editors menu., but what happens? It won't work, because 
the Debian Menu can't find an item called vim.desktop.



mfg, heinrich :-)