Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?

["Thomas Beaudry" <tmbeaudry@msn.com>]

Why??
Because it's a nice convienence.  And as you noted,
you can turn it off if you don't like it.

I get tired of people objecting against features that
go against their view when they don't have to use it.
Too many people think the Gentoo (or any of the other
distros) should be the way they want it and no other
way.  If they don't want/use a feature, it's a waste
to put it in.  Never mind what anybody else might like.

>From: Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com>
>To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?
>Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:46:43 +0100
>
>Why??
>Whenever I install Mandrake the first thing I do is disable its menu
>system.  It's ugly and IMHO unnecessary.  KDE has a pretty good menu
>system of its own as has gnome.
>
>
>On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 16:08, Tom Philbrick wrote:
> > Searching the mailing list archives, I see that back in April someone
> > asked about automatic menus. One reply said that it was already being
> > worked on, while others said the opposite. Is anyone currently working
> > on an automatic menu system for gentoo, and if so, what is its status?
> >
> > I ask because I am in the process of porting the debian menu system
> > over to gentoo, but I realized I should stop and see if it is worth the
> > effort. I have the program working as far as I can tell, although I
> > haven't done much testing yet. It still needs a lot of work, but most
> > of that is tailoring it to gentoo rather than debian (rewriting
> > documentation, and making my hacks less of a hack). The build isn't
> > pretty, I see now why debian is not a source distro, but it works for
> > now and I'm working on cleaning it up.
> >
> > For those of you that have never used debian (or mandrake, as menudrake
> > uses the debian menu system under the hood) you can read a good
> > overview of it at:
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/index.html For
> > the system to work, it would require that every package that wants to
> > use a menu must install a menu-method that describes how to generate a
> > menu for that program (these can me borrowed from debian, or written
> > from scratch). It also would require that every application that wanted
> > to be in a menu include a simple menu file that describes what the menu
> > entry should be. Yes that means a lot of packages would need to be
> > updated, but the menufiles take about 30 seconds to write, and are
> > simple enough for anyone to do.
> >
> > So what should I do? Post a new package bug now? Wait until it is
> > completely done? Wait until a better time? Give up in favor of a more
> > mature, or better, solution?
> >
> > -Tom Philbrick
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