Re: new menu spec in 2.6

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 04:10, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> I really want to switch our new distro release to the XDG menu spec
> since both GNOME and KDE have almost working XDG menu implementation. We
> (Mandrakesoft) still want to support other WMs so we will probably need
> a menu editor for those WM and a way to convert XDG menu to internal WM
> format (something similar to Debian menu method)..

desktop-menu-tool in desktop-file-utils does exactly this (I even have a
patch submitted that I haven't applied yet for WindowMaker support for
example). The XDG->WM functionality should be very simple if you want to
use this tool.

> Why not use menudrake (probably a version with some Mdk enhancement
> disabled) for that ?

Sounds pretty interesting to me, for sure...

Havoc