Old Gnome menus not being fully recognised

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le lundi 10 janvier 2005 à 10:43 +0000, Mark Cooke a écrit :
> Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
> > true, but that is the gnome 1.x directroy for storing launcers, if they
> > dont appear in hoary (which is a good move imho) i would use the
> > currently supported (f.d.o defined) way which
> > is: /usr/share/applications/ to make it work :)
> 
> I agree, I always use /usr/share/applications for all program launchers,
> but there are still alot of programs (from universe, I know it's not 
> supported), that still use this old directory, for example, d4x.
> 
> Also several window managers, still use this old directory for looking 
> in (and hopefully the new f.d.o one as well).
> 
> I know thats it's down the the packagers to alter their files, to 
> conform to the f.d.o file structure, but until they all do,
> I feel that we should still support the old structure as well.

Please stop this branch of the discussion here, the old dirs are
supported, you can open /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to get the
details.


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher