Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP #16: Gentoo Menu System

[Heinrich Wendel]

On Monday 06 October 2003 16:21, foser wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:09, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems that pauldv/foser's idea is generally to patch/rewrite the WM's
> > to use the menu-spec natively. I like this idea, but there is one problem
> > i see. It will time. Gnome will have support for it in 2.6 which will be
> > out in spring 2004
>
> No, as said we will probably be able to backport the required code much
> sooner if needed.


From a discussion with Havoc Penningtion:
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On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 08:28, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> How will the implementation of the menu-spec in gnome 2.6 be? It would be
nice 
> to have a general C library that other WM's could use as well.
>

Code is in desktop-file-utils. I don't think it's reasonable enough to
use as a shared library but they could use the code.

Havoc
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On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:48, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> On Monday 06 October 2003 16:33, you wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:22, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> > > Yeah, but the menu-spec code isn't very well, do you thing the
> > > gnome-maintainer will extend it and use it as base library for their
> > > implementation?
> >
> > I probably have to do the GNOME work myself, so I'm planning to build on
> > that code.
>
> We are trying to get a Menu System for Gentoo (like Debian's). It would be
> nice if we could backport the GNOME 2.6 menu system to GNOME 2.4. Do you
> think you can implement the menu-spec until the end of the year, so we can
> switch KDE and GNOME to the new system at once?
>

I'm hoping to do it soon. Don't know for sure when. ;-) Hopefully in the
next couple months.

Havoc
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What else need to be done?

>
> - foser
mfg, Heinrich :)

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