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From: Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:10:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030828141056.GJ6635@enki.datanode.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308281600.13232.pauldv@gentoo.org>

Naively stepping into this fray, how does this menu system differ from
genmenu (x11-misc/genmenu) which has in my use generated some rather nice
menus for my not-big-boy wm's (*box, wmaker, etc)?


On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:00:13PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> The menu system is not about having the same menu in all windowmanagers as 
> much as it is about having every application added to the menu of whatever 
> windowmanager you are using. Independent of what kind of toolkit the 
> application uses. A vanilla useflag would function like currently the foreign 
> package flag does for the kdeadmin ebuild. That flag enables the compilation 
> of a package manager that is standard but currently does not work well with 
> gentoo (it being not an rpm based system).
> 
> For the menu system it might be necessary to patch some windowmanagers to be 
> able to use our menu's while keeping some compatibility with a situation 
> where the menu manager is not installed. Those changes are normally small and 
> localised, but generally change some part of the plumbing of such a program 
> while keeping generally the same behaviour. If you want to hack with a 
> windowmanager yourself those changes might be confusing and hence the 
> "vanilla" flag.
> 
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-28 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-27 22:22 [gentoo-dev] desktop dams
2003-08-27 22:58 ` Spider
2003-08-28  0:41   ` Brett I. Holcomb
2003-08-28  0:47     ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-28  0:58       ` Cedric Veilleux
2003-08-28  1:29       ` Riyad Kalla
2003-08-28  1:48       ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-28  8:08   ` dams
2003-08-28 10:25     ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-28 10:51       ` dams
2003-08-28 11:08         ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-28 11:28           ` dams
2003-08-28 13:37             ` Mike Frysinger
2003-08-29  5:22               ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-28 11:15 ` foser
2003-08-28 12:52   ` dams
2003-08-28 13:21     ` foser
2003-08-28 13:51       ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-28 14:00       ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-28 14:10         ` Michael Cummings [this message]
2003-08-28 14:34           ` foser
2003-08-28 14:30         ` foser
2003-08-28 17:44         ` Spider
2003-08-28 19:14           ` Peter Ruskin
2003-08-28 19:24             ` foser
2003-08-28 22:07               ` Peter Ruskin
2003-08-28 20:46             ` dams
2003-08-28 21:34               ` Spider
2003-08-28 22:32                 ` foser
2003-08-28 23:01                   ` dams
2003-08-28 20:35           ` dams
2003-08-28 21:03             ` Spider
2003-08-28 21:21               ` dams
2003-08-28 22:40                 ` foser
2003-08-28 21:07           ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-28 14:59       ` dams
2003-08-28 21:17         ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-28 23:24       ` Jason Stubbs
2003-08-28 13:54     ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-08-28 15:03       ` dams
2003-08-28 15:09         ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-28 15:36           ` dams
2003-08-28 15:48             ` jonah benton
2003-08-28 14:04   ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-28 14:48     ` foser
2003-08-28 23:30       ` Seemant Kulleen
2003-08-29  1:32         ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-29 14:06           ` dams
2003-08-29 14:18             ` Luke-Jr

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