Universe and Multiverse

[Tim Schmidt]

Yeah, I really should take some time and love on a few packages.  I
promise to do so at some point in the future at my discression.  ;)

Fortunately, the freedesktop.org people seem to have hashed out a
standard for all this menu entry malarky and I believe the gnome and
kde folks are actually co-operating to some extent.  Any word from
people more intimately involoved as to how well that's working out?
If it's working well I would assume all of upstream to just start
doing The Right ThingTM eventually.

--tim


On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:18:27 +1300, Jim Cheetham <jim at inode.co.nz> wrote:
> Tim Schmidt wrote:
> > I've noticed the same with many applications.  Some (like The Battle
> > for Wesnoth) actually do as an entry.  I believe this is mainly an
> > up-stream problem, however, it would be nice for some extra Ubuntu
> > love in this area.
> 
> But that's the whole point of universe - packages that are basically
> unloved :-) well, unadopted, to be more accurate.
> 
> If the package upstream developer likes GNOME, they will provide the
> data for hooking into the menus. If they don't, there won't be anything.
> 
> If a package were adopted into main, and there was no GNOME menu data,
> the Ubuntu package maintainer would create some (and offer the change
> back to the upstream developer).
> 
> If *you* want a universe package to have a little extra love, make a
> patch for it, and submit it via bugzilla. That's not as good as it being
> adopted for main, but it's not bad (I patched ethereal's menu item from
> using gksu to gksudo - it was painless, easy, and accepted)
> 
> -jim
> 
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