[Hoary] Am I supposed to have a Debian menu?

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:32:12 +0100 (CET), Magnus Therning
<magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> > I just dist-upgraded last night to Hoary and noticed that the
> > Applications menu has a fairly heavily populated, four-level deep
> > Debian menu. I haven't seen anyone mention this addition from Warty.
> > Am I supposed to have that or is it a bug in dist-upgrade?
> 
> I just managed to add that menu to my Applications menu. It took a
> re-login, and of course I didn't do just one thing, but it ought to set
> you off in the right direction if you want to dig into it.
> 
>  Install 'menu-xdg'
>  Run 'update-menu'
> 
> I am not sure what menu-xdg actually provides. 'update-menu' is in the
> menu package.

$ apt-cache show menu-xdg
Package: menu-xdg
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 72
Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <ccheney at debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.1
Depends: menu
Filename: pool/universe/m/menu-xdg/menu-xdg_0.1_all.deb
Size: 3414
MD5sum: 79961118cb8ea9fffff72656a82b4b19
Description: freedesktop.org menu compliant window manager scripts
 menu-xdg contains menu-methods to convert the Debian menu structure to
 the freedesktop.org xdg menu structure.
 .
  * Base Directory Specification Version 0.6
  * Menu Specification Version 0.8
  * Desktop Entry Specification Version 0.9.4
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

> 
> This isn't much of an answer I'm afraid. Hope it helps someone though.
> 
> /M
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Regards,
Russ