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. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
