Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?

[Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com>]

Why??
Whenever I install Mandrake the first thing I do is disable its menu 
system.  It's ugly and IMHO unnecessary.  KDE has a pretty good menu 
system of its own as has gnome.


On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 16:08, Tom Philbrick 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?
>
> -Tom Philbrick
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