Re: new menu vfs backend

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,
	It all sounds good to me, with one question/concern ... is the new
standard anyway backwards compatible with the old ? If not, how will
migration be handled ... how broken will things get ?

	(Having read both specs at different points I should probably be able
to answer the question myself, but the whole vfolder thing has always
confused me too much :-)

Good Luck,
Mark.

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 01:57, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While we're all coming clean about features. ;-) 
> 
> I'm working on a menu backend that uses the new spec at
> http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu/draft/menu-spec/menu-spec.html
> Code is in freedesktop.org CVS module desktop-file-utils.
> 
> It's basically working in read-only mode. I have to add editing, which
> will take a bit more work, hopefully I'll have it end of next week or
> at least after next weekend.
> 
> So basically first testable code will land about 1-2 weeks before the
> feature freeze on June 9. Unless we want to land read-only mode before
> then.
> 
> The plan is to use this backend in an upcoming Red Hat Linux
> release. For that purpose I'll be attempting to stabilize the code
> over approximately the 2.4 cycle. Whether we want to actually put it
> in 2.4 doesn't make a big difference to me (the vfs backend is
> standalone so is easy to "backport"), but the option is there.
> 
> The new menu spec does not change what applications do (they still
> install to /usr/share/applications). It does however completely ignore
> any user menu edits in ~/.gnome2, and I don't see any real way to
> avoid that.
> 
> Havoc
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