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> I've only skimmed over your proposal so far. btw I didn't see a description |
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> of how you'll actually make all the WMs aware of the menu. Do you want to |
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> autogenerate, from the central menu tree, a custom-format menu tree for |
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> every installed WM? |
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Exactly. The central menu tree will be quite generic and then the script will, |
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based on it, generate the menus for each WM. The system will be aware of a wm |
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through the .menu file in the rules direcotry, which will contain a bunch of |
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sh functions to generate the proper menu for a specific wm. |
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> Anyway, what about the freedesktop.org standard for .desktop files? It has |
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> some very nice features such as multiple categories per item, |
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> multilpe-language descriptions, etc. More importantly, both kde and gnome |
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> will use that standard in their next releases (maybe gnome already does, |
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> not sure). So why don't we build on top of that? Other people in other |
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> distros, as well as the developers of various packages and of WMs other |
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> than kde and gnome, will surely be adding support for it in the future. Why |
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> do we want yet another custom system? How is it better than what |
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> freedesktop.org has (with perhaps portage-centric tools written to make |
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> things easier)? |
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I'm not really sure what you mean. But if I got it right I guess we could use |
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their specification for the central menu, while it does not change the idea |
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of generating wm-specific menu through the foo.menu script. At leasr while |
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99% of window managers do not support it directly :) |
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Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o> |
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Let the Force be with us! |
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