[I''m forwarding this to pkg-kde-talk for general attention and discussion. Please follow up there and CC Josselin.] Hi Josselin, I did the upload, but other team members did the actual work on this whole issue :) So I''ve forwarded your message to pkg-kde-talk@lists.alioth.debian.org, the KDE team''s "private" discussion list. Your points seem quite sensible, and teaming up before approaching fd.o is also a good idea. Comments anyone? Cheers, Christopher ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- I notice you are the one who uploaded the XDG_MENU_PREFIX changes for KDE. As I was the one to do the same for GNOME, I would like to be sure we''re on the same wavelength about it :) I notice that currently, we have the same, sane approach: hardcode the prefix directly in the code. However, I see you have prepared some code which reads this environment variable if upstream supports it some day. May I suggest that upstream should *never* support it? At least, not the environment variable way. This contradicts directly the Debian policy ?9.9 and this could never be done in a way that works correctly. For example, someone starting gnome-panel in a fvwm session wouldn''t understand why he''d get empty menus. The freedesktop guys added this change mostly for distributions changing the menu names, like we do, but without asking whether the change suited us. I think we should ask them to replace this environment with something correctly thought, but it would be better to ask the same thing. What do you think about this? ------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 249 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-kde-talk/attachments/20061215/47c9dc82/attachment.pgp