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On 23 Aug 2001 22:48:45 +0000, Mikael Hallendal wrote: |
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> Den 23 Aug 2001 11:37:35 -0600 skrev Daniel Robbins: |
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> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:44:01PM -0700, Taras wrote: |
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> > |
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> > > I think the biggest improvement to gui stuff in gentoo would be |
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> > > borrowing debian's menu systems. They got a unified menu system for all |
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> > > managers included in debian. I think almost every x app has an entry |
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> > > there. Mandrake and Connectiva already borrowed it, it would be nice if |
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> > > gentoo would too. |
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> > I think we can add debian's or our own version of this menu system feature |
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> > before 1.0. I don't think it needs to be that hard. We just need a central |
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> > "app registry" system. |
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> Hi! |
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> I was more thinking of the fact that we would have to write menu |
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> control-files (or what they would be called) for every app we have that |
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> would make sence being put in a menu. |
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> Also we have to figure out how we would do this in the best way, I'm |
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> personally not a fan of Debians "Debian"-menu that show up under every |
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> category. I think that many users might find it confusing to have |
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> something like: |
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> Mainmenu |
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> Apps |
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> ... |
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> Graphics |
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> Internet |
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> ... |
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> Debian |
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> Apps |
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> ... |
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> Graphics |
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> Internet |
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> ... |
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> With all apps showing up in the Debian submenu and only the GNOME (for |
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> example) apps showing up in the first categories. |
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I don't think apps should show up in 2 categories. IMHO |
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GNOME/KDE/Whatever should all be categorized regarding their |
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functionality, not environment. |
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> Regards, |
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> Mikael Hallendal |
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> > Best Regards, |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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> > Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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> > Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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> > |
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> -- |
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> Mikael Hallendal http://micke.hallendal.net/ |
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> Stockholm, Sweden Cell: +46 (0)709 718 918 |
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