From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22973 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Aug 2003 12:08:47 -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 29831 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 12:08:46 -0000 From: Heinrich Wendel Organization: gentoo To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:08:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308141408.43807.lanius@gentoo.org> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Summary X-Archives-Salt: ae8904f9-9963-4c10-812c-2325bb54186b X-Archives-Hash: 68ddc4ef594e09e9db8ac8b65f615c78 Hi, The discussion has become a bit off topic from the original topic, but there came up important questions, let me summarize it a bit: 1.) There are users that wan't to manage their menus at their own, no problem, just set FEATURES="-menu" (or don't set FEATURES="menu") 2.) There are ppl that say, the proposed solution is to much work, why not base on the current situation and create a wrapper around the gnome and kde menus. But what will we do if KDE or GNOME changes it menu-system, we have to change ours as well. The proposed solution will be completly independent from KDE and GNOME. I also want to qoute spider: "consider that we don't have to provide massive fileupdates, global lists coherent with our tree, but each capable and installed package requires a small change that goes back and forwards with versions without overhead for versionbumps." 3.) Implementation issues, like icons, we can discuss that later. And finally i want to quote seemants post ;) "Wow, this thread is just getting silly. For the nay-sayers who just want to "add my own menu entries, thank you" have you actually READ what the proposal was? Did you not see that the thing is optional? Further, did you not see that it will NOT overwrite the application's native menu stuff? For the developers who won't go and change their ebuilds -- are you sure you've got the end-user's best interests at heart? Having been part of the distro for damned near 20 months now, "why doesn't gentoo have an automated menu system?" is among the top 10 most frequently asked questions. If you won't switch them, we'll find a developer who will. Please, stop this flame rubbish already." mfg, Heinrich -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list