[PATCH] Menu Spec - Desktop specific menus

Bastian, Waldo waldo.bastian at intel.com
Tue Sep 26 10:36:24 EEST 2006


>On 9/25/06, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandriva.com> wrote:
>> Not all distributions :)
>>
>> For Mandriva Linux 2007.0, we are storing GNOME and KDE specific
files
>> in /etc/xdg/gnome (or /etc/xdg/kde ) and are setting XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
>> accordingly.
>>
>> --
>> Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandriva.com>
>> Mandriva
>>
>
>Doesn't that break user changes? If both files are called
>applications.menu kmenuedit and alacarte are going to both edit
>~/.config/menus/applications.menu which could cause problems.

It also depends on how smart alacarte is in editing applications.menu.
If it merges the "parent" menu with the tag that we added for that and
only makes minimal "add/remove" changes, it should be ok either way.

Cheers,
Waldo



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