* Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop
@ 2003-08-28 14:10 99% ` Michael Cummings
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From: Michael Cummings @ 2003-08-28 14:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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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