Re: wineshelllink: Use FreeDesktop standard to create Wine menu structure.

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Jeremy White wrote:
> I would strongly recommend that this be done instead with
> xdg-utils:
>
> http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/XdgUtils
> Sure, but they can not handle files with spaces in them. Also they
> don't work as-is with Wine's winemenubuilder. Which will require
> at least one more wrapper script. Also they don't allow installing icons
> without specifying size. And all in all it will be 4 large scripts
> instead of 1 small.
> That will allow us to avoid the pain of maintaining our own
> implementation, and allow distro vendors to make their distro
> work with Wine just by supplying a working version of xdg-utils.
> It's been discussed multiple times here. And last time I remember
> agreement was not to introduce any additional dependencies.
> I have also checked, and not a single distro had those installed.
> I do not want to depend on something that's no one has, and no way to
> distribute it to users either.
> The trick is whether or not we can persuade Alexandre and/or all
> of the Wine packagers to include xdg-utils by default in distributions.
> That's not his call but packagers. And the problem will remain the same.

Vitaliy.

wineshelllink: Use FreeDesktop standard to create Wine menu structure.

[Travis Watkins]

On 11/24/06, Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel(a)kievinfo.com> wrote:
> [xdg-utils] can not handle files with spaces in them.

Probably because GNOME cannot handle files with spaces in them for the menus.

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