From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18668 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Aug 2003 14:10:49 -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 24370 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2003 14:10:49 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:10:56 -0400 From: Michael Cummings To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030828141056.GJ6635@enki.datanode.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <1062076911.3455.116.camel@rivendell> <200308281600.13232.pauldv@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308281600.13232.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.21 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop X-Archives-Salt: 239cd51c-b387-46a0-9055-e3686a6d95f1 X-Archives-Hash: c195ac41f34a5aac3260e73167bad68e 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. > > -- -----o()o--------------------------------------------- | http://www.gentoo.org/ | #gentoo-dev on irc.freenode.net Gentoo Dev | #gentoo-perl on irc.freenode.net Perl Guy | | GnuPG Key ID: AB5CED4E9E7F4E2E -----o()o--------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list