From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25731 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Aug 2003 15:08:02 -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 7145 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 15:08:02 -0000 From: Stuart Herbert Reply-To: stuart@gentoo.org To: Svyatogor , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:05:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200308131844.24013.lanius@gentoo.org> <200308141231.57296.stuart@gentoo.org> <200308141501.38907.svyatogor@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200308141501.38907.svyatogor@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_UV6O/Q6NqSaZoGe"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308141605.56288.stuart@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Some Comments X-Archives-Salt: dcaf89b5-cc8c-44a9-8a0d-9e47951f1dc5 X-Archives-Hash: 65a2d2c8a2d17907c957319492307b67 --Boundary-02=_UV6O/Q6NqSaZoGe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 14 August 2003 1:01 pm, Svyatogor wrote: > On Thursday 14 August 2003 14:31, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > A creditable (sp?) menu system would install native menu entries for ea= ch > > 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. > > Not exactly for each wm, but a single 'universal' desktop entry, based on > which we generate native wm menus. The main advantage is central administration of the menu items added by=20 ebuilds. That's a powerful advantage, and one that has its place for sure. But generating native wm menus seems to me to imply some form of overwritin= g=20 of what's already there - which is at the heart of the objections that some= =20 of the previous posters in this thread have raised. That is, if your tool= =20 re-generates all the menus any time *any* ebuild tries to add a new menu=20 item. Best regards, Stu =2D-=20 Stuart Herbert stuart@gentoo.o= rg Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.or= g/ Beta packages for download http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/package= s/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint =3D 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C =2D- --Boundary-02=_UV6O/Q6NqSaZoGe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/O6VUDC+AuvmvxXwRAs2QAKCein/Nnqjkn525ECSjgnhgEpZ0GQCghyLP UmWxCOWea8DA14G8gLLZof4= =5k/F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_UV6O/Q6NqSaZoGe--