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of the

menu

package will automatically get menu entries in their window managers, as well in

shells like

pdmenu

.

Menu entries should follow the current menu policy.

The menu policy can be found in the

menu policy

files in the

debian policy

package. It is

also available from the Debian web mirrors at

/doc/packaging manuals/menu policy/

(

http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging manuals/menu policy/

)

.

Please also refer to the Debian Menu System documentation that comes with the

menu

package

for information about how to register your applications.

9.7 Multimedia handlers

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, RFCs 2045 2049) is a mechanism for encoding

files and data streams and providing meta information about them, in particular their type

(e.g. audio or video) and format (e.g. PNG, HTML, MP3).

Registration of MIME type handlers allows programs like mail user agents and web browsers

to invoke these handlers to view, edit or display MIME types they don't support directly.

Packages which provide the ability to view/show/play, compose, edit or print MIME types

should register themselves as such following the current MIME support policy.

The

MIME

support

policy

can

be

found

in

the

mime policy

files

in

the

debian policy

package.

It is also available from the Debian web mirrors at

/doc/packaging manuals/mime policy/ (

http://www.debian.org/doc/

packaging manuals/mime policy/

)

.

9.8 Keyboard configuration

To achieve a consistent keyboard configuration so that all applications interpret a keyboard

event the same way, all programs in the Debian distribution must be configured to comply

with the following guidelines.

The following keys must have the specified interpretations:

<  

delete the character to the left of the cursor

Delete

delete the character to the right of the cursor

Control+H

emacs: the help prefix

The interpretation of any keyboard events should be independent of the terminal that is used,

be it a virtual console, an X terminal emulator, an rlogin/telnet session, etc.

The following list explains how the different programs should be set up to achieve this: