From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15222 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Aug 2003 23:26:22 -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 3603 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2003 23:26:22 -0000 X-WM-Posted-At: mailandnews.com; Thu, 28 Aug 03 19:26:21 -0400 From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:24:46 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1062076911.3455.116.camel@rivendell> In-Reply-To: <1062076911.3455.116.camel@rivendell> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308290824.47063.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop X-Archives-Salt: 534049bd-4e9a-42ad-bb33-58fd8202990d X-Archives-Hash: 9856cbf84e253932f2d4c920704cdc43 On Thursday 28 August 2003 22:21, foser wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:52, dams@idm.fr wrote: > > Maybe add a vanilla flags, that can be unset. When unset, the DE are > > preconfigured and gentoo touched. > > The pb is that you want vanilla, but you want also some core feature like > > centralized menu system, which is not compatible. So either we decide not > > to include such features, or to have a flag. > > The proposed implementation i have seen i dislike for several reasons, > but mostly because of the reasons i stated down here in my last mail > (compliance part). I think other possible solutions may be a lot more > workable and should be investigated first. But these are details, this > isn't the place to discuss this. There is currently work going on to create a unified desktop menu system with the hopes of integration with portage.Check out: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=66754 To sum up, it is an optional system that will create menu items for useful applications following guidelines on freedesktop.org for organisation. The issue of WM specific menus (such as KDE desktop settings) has been touched on but I don't believe has been resolved yet. I've posted to the forum to alert the head developer of the project of this discussion. Hopefully, he'll clarify the idea. Regards, Jason -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list