Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?

[Jon Nelson <jnelson@jamponi.net>]

All I can say is:

You the Man.

It's been on my List of things TO DO.
[I have a very long, getting longer-every-day, list].

Make available what you've got to us, or send it to me,
and I'll make it available, etc...

Thanks, and let's take a look!

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:08:06 -0400
Tom Philbrick <tom@wickidpisa.com> wrote:

> Searching the mailing list archives, I see that back in April
> someone asked about automatic menus. One reply said that it was
> already being worked on, while others said the opposite. Is
> anyone currently working on an automatic menu system for
> gentoo, and if so, what is its status?
> 
> I ask because I am in the process of porting the debian menu
> system over to gentoo, but I realized I should stop and see if
> it is worth the effort. I have the program working as far as I
> can tell, although I haven't done much testing yet. It still
> needs a lot of work, but most of that is tailoring it to gentoo
> rather than debian (rewriting documentation, and making my
> hacks less of a hack). The build isn't pretty, I see now why
> debian is not a source distro, but it works for now and I'm
> working on cleaning it up.
> 
> For those of you that have never used debian (or mandrake, as
> menudrake uses the debian menu system under the hood) you can
> read a good overview of it at:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/index.html
> 
> For the system to work, it would require that every package
> that wants to use a menu must install a menu-method that
> describes how to generate a menu for that program (these can me
> borrowed from debian, or written from scratch). It also would
> require that every application that wanted to be in a menu
> include a simple menu file that describes what the menu entry
> should be. Yes that means a lot of packages would need to be
> updated, but the menufiles take about 30 seconds to write, and
> are simple enough for anyone to do.
> 
> So what should I do? Post a new package bug now? Wait until it
> is completely done? Wait until a better time? Give up in favor
> of a more mature, or better, solution?


-- 
Jon Nelson
Just because it's not broken doesn't mean we can't take it apart.