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From: Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
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I am a late comer to this discussion and this may have been covered
previously, but does this wheel need re-inventing?

debian have a menu system which has also been picked up by mandrake, and
i have been impressed with it on thse systems. Each package has a
wm-neutral menu file descrbing where the package should fit in to the
system, and there are system wide scripts to add those entries into each
wm's menuing system. 

coupled with  global menu USE flag this could work well as most of the
work has been done by the debian and mandrake package maintainers. IIRC
mime-types are handled too.


On Sat, 1 May 2004 15:14:54 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 01 May 2004 10:10:53 -0400 Brandon Hale <tseng@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | So the questions are, *who* is the somebody who will patch all these
> | wm's, and will I have to use it?
> 
> I'll be happy to do fluxbox, but not until after upstream finish their
> changes to the menu code (it's being rewritten as we speak). The way
> things are working out, it'll be easy to add in a [Gentoo] (or
> [Gnome Desktop] or whatever we're calling it( submenu with our own
> handler.
> 
> -- 
> Ciaran McCreesh, Gentoo XMLcracy Member G03X276
> (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes)
> Mail:    ciaranm at gentoo.org
> Web:     http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
> 

-- 
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>


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