On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:02 am, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> We can't make Gentoo like Windows.  

I'd hope that we'd make it better, to be honest :)

I for one hate emerging an app, only to have to go hunting later to find the 
binaries that need adding to the desktop menus.  This is 2003, not 1993, and 
by now I'd have hoped that we could do better.

> My bad experience of Mandrake's menu implementation (copied from Debian)
> influences my reaction to your proposals.  There they decided to
> disable kmenuedit and reroute all KDE menus into their own tree.  I
> will have nothing to do with any such interference to a good, working
> menu system.

A creditable (sp?) menu system would install native menu entries for each 
supported WM, I'd hope.

I'd hope that any technical solution would provide a new wm-menu eclass, which 
exports a (for arguments sake) 'wm-install-menuitem' function that 
transparently installs menu entries for each of the wm's currently active.  
Yes, it would mean going back and changing lots of existing ebuilds, but it 
would be a worthy change.

Best regards,
Stu
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