Therefore:
- 1. The Technical Committee resolves that packages for which the
- Debian menu system currently applies should provide a .desktop
- file. Applications providing a .desktop file should not
- provide a Debian menu file.
+ 1. The Technical Committee resolves that packages which provide
+ applications customarily designed for use within a desktop
+ environment should provide a .desktop file conforming to the
+ Freedesktop Desktop Entry Specification.
+
+ 2. Packages may provide menu files at the pleasure of the
+ maintainer, but packages providing a .desktop file shall not
+ also provide a menu file.
2. We further resolve that "menu programs" should not depend on the
Debian Menu System and should instead rely on .desktop file
d) D-Bus application activation
e) StartupNotify support
-
B. Support for the .desktop spec is widely provided as part of
upstream packaging for desktop applications.
-
C. A .desktop file describe in the .desktop spec captures
- essentially all of the information present in the Debian menu
- system:
+ essentially the same information as that present in the Debian
+ menu system:
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