On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 11:02 +0100, Stuart Children wrote:
Yep, makes sense. So focusing purely on where we (GNOME and Fedora)
want
to go, rather than how to resolve the specifics of the X-Chat case right
now... it would appear that we do intend to change desktop files to have
Name and GenericName specific as in the fdo spec (values "X-Chat" and
"IRC Client" in our example here).
So the key question is, will bigboard replace the current gnome-panel's
application menu? It would *seem* so, but it's not entirely clear. My
reason for asking: is it worth my time going to hack on gnome-menus
(though maybe the library changes there are required anyway - will have
to see what bigboard's using to read desktop entries) and gnome-panel?
The other consideration there would be the timeline for integration of
bigboard into a GNOME/Fedora release. If there isn't currently one
that's fine, I just want to differentiate that from me know being able
to find it. :) The changes I was thinking of to gnome-panel could be
done easily enough, would allow people to start "fixing" the desktop
files right away, and prevent upsets about name display until bigboard
is available. But maybe my efforts are better spent on bigboard?
I think it is definitively worth improving gnome-menus handling of
Name/GenericName. Bigboard is in rawhide right now. The way we envision
this to work in the F8 timeframe is that there will be a way to switch
between "classical" and "online" mode (the switching code is
currently
under review in the online-desktop package). I don't think that the
"classical" mode is not going completely away anytime soon.