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Thanks to the efforts of window environment packagers, menus containing all of these entries can be viewed in KDE, GNOME, ["GNUStep"], ["Enlightenment"] and ["Windowmaker"], making every application available in every environment. Thanks to the efforts of window environment packagers, menus containing all of these entries can be viewed in KDE, GNOME, [[GNUStep]], [[Enlightenment]] and [[Windowmaker]], making every application available in every environment.
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Mandrake has adopted Debian's menu system but tweaked it to handle ["mime"]types and provide a nicer categorisation. Mandrake has adopted Debian's menu system but tweaked it to handle [[mime]]types and provide a nicer categorisation.
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In the future, the menu system will use [".desktop"] files as its source of information. In the future, the menu system will use [[.desktop]] files as its source of information.

The Debian menu system provides a centralized list of all installed user applications (for which the packager provided a menu entry). It is a part of DebianPolicy, and includes both GNOME and KDE applications and numerous others as well.

Thanks to the efforts of window environment packagers, menus containing all of these entries can be viewed in KDE, GNOME, ?GNUStep, ?Enlightenment and ?Windowmaker, making every application available in every environment.

Mandrake has adopted Debian's menu system but tweaked it to handle ?mimetypes and provide a nicer categorisation.

In the future, the menu system will use ?.desktop files as its source of information.

There is a special configuration script for the menus:

  • update-menus - Debian menu system