From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26622 invoked by uid 1002); 29 May 2003 18:01:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9741 invoked from network); 29 May 2003 18:01:41 -0000 From: Dan Armak Reply-To: danarmak@gentoo.org Organization: Gentoo Technologies, Inc. To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 20:54:07 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <200305291808.21700.svyatogor@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200305291808.21700.svyatogor@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_/kk1+lorm3n6wFT"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200305292054.07631.danarmak@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PROPOSAL] Menu system for all gentoo wm's. X-Archives-Salt: 822af8b2-df71-4bfd-9095-90cc78630271 X-Archives-Hash: 4a87d926ac9b3de2430fd485dce27910 --Boundary-02=_/kk1+lorm3n6wFT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 29 May 2003 21:08, Svyatogor wrote: > Ok, waiting for your criticism ;) I've only skimmed over your proposal so far. btw I didn't see a description= of=20 how you'll actually make all the WMs aware of the menu. Do you want to=20 autogenerate, from the central menu tree, a custom-format menu tree for eve= ry=20 installed WM? Anyway, what about the freedesktop.org standard for .desktop files? It has= =20 some very nice features such as multiple categories per item,=20 multilpe-language descriptions, etc. More importantly, both kde and gnome=20 will use that standard in their next releases (maybe gnome already does, no= t=20 sure). So why don't we build on top of that? Other people in other distros,= =20 as well as the developers of various packages and of WMs other than kde and= =20 gnome, will surely be adding support for it in the future. Why do we want y= et=20 another custom system? How is it better than what freedesktop.org has (with= =20 perhaps portage-centric tools written to make things easier)? =2D-=20 Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key --Boundary-02=_/kk1+lorm3n6wFT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+1kk/UI2RQ41fiVERAl1KAJ0fU1ip7XlJ2EZ5FsGdV6RASMG+DgCfa3yR ihbr+39ACBrcJGnst5NZ+F0= =mbsE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_/kk1+lorm3n6wFT--