Old Gnome menus not being fully recognised

[Mark C]

Oliver Grawert wrote:


> so you dont want progress for linux on the desktop and rather have users
> editing .desktop files instead of a small fix that is easily done to the
> package by adding one (!) line ? 

Editing the package details by the developers is fine of debian 
packages, but what about a lot of 3rd party programs, like Crossover, 
Transgaming, a lot of games, and numerous other programs, these tend to 
do the files to work on all desktop or window managers (that maybe are 
not using the new standards), so whilst the answer maybe to get these to 
start using the f.d.o system, and a bug report should be filled to the 
relevant company, but in the meantime, we should do our best to allow 
these to still work, as they do in Warty.

> thats a weird attitude towards the
> users. i'd rather see all apps with the right .desktop entrys to have
> them in the gnome menu (no matter where they are located as long as its
> supportable) after they are installed (and i know ther is an approach to


> and i really cant follow your comparison with MS here, 

 From what I can see, the attitude seems to be it's our way or the 
highway (or at least that's the impression I get).


Mark