More on the menu spec test suite

[Bastian, Waldo]

Wrt 4) and 5), this is intentional. I'll fix 3).

See e.g.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html#query-algo
rithm :
"Note that an entry that is included in a menu but excluded again by a
later <Exclude> is still considered allocated (for the purposes of
<OnlyUnallocated>) even though that entry no longer appears in the
menu."

The rationale for this is to make menu editing easier: A menu entry can
be removed by adding a single <Excluded>, and likewise, a submenu can be
removed with a single <Deleted>. If the entry was considered
"Unallocated" after being explicitly excluded, removing an entry this
way would effectively move it to an "unallocated" menu instead of truly
removing it, which many people considered confusing.

Cheers,
Waldo
 
Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro,
Oregon

>-----Original Message-----
>From: xdg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:xdg-
>bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Jannis Pohlmann
>Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:19 AM
>To: xdg at lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: Re: More on the menu spec test suite
>
>I have prepared a list of possible bugs in the test suite I noticed
>today. Would someone (Waldo?) please comment them?
>
>You can find this list on (the testing output would have made this
>eMail unreadable, so I uploaded it to our server):
>
>  http://lunar-linux.org/~jannis/menu-spec-testsuite.txt
>
>Thanks in advance - the test suite helped me fixing a lot of bugs
>already within one day.
>
>Regards,
>  Jannis
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