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Nick Rout posted <20040505120233.2BA2.NICK@×××××××.nz>, excerpted below, |
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on Wed, 05 May 2004 12:02:41 +1200: |
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> debian have a menu system which has also been picked up by mandrake, and |
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> i have been impressed with it on thse systems. Each package has a |
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> wm-neutral menu file descrbing where the package should fit in to the |
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> system, and there are system wide scripts to add those entries into each |
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> wm's menuing system. |
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> coupled with global menu USE flag this could work well as most of the |
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> work has been done by the debian and mandrake package maintainers. IIRC |
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> mime-types are handled too. |
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Coming from Mandrake myself, I've wondered about this as well, but hadn't |
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voiced it as I didn't know if it was appropriate, being I'm a Gentoo |
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newbie still running Mandrake as my main distrib. |
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The caveat on Mandrake is that there's little newbie documentation on the |
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menu package, other than what's under /usr/share/doc/, and that's mostly |
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targeted at developers and seasoned sysadmins, not at someone just wanting |
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to modify their menu a bit and have it stick. As a new Mandrake user |
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coming from MSWormOS, where I was a power user and hobbyist programmer, I |
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quickly found the KDE KMenu files and immediately grasped how to edit that |
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structure to my liking, since it was conceptually similar to the MSWormOS |
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start menu. I was rather frustrated to find my changes wiped out when I |
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updated a package, however, until I discovered the menu system. So far, |
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the single thing I've been MOST impressed with on Gentoo is the |
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documentation, and I expect it would be no different in this case, should |
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the menu system be adopted. Gentoo could again show the way for other |
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distribs, as there's certainly an opportunity for Mandrake to improve in |
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this area. Don't know about Debian. |
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BTW, I've seen references to the various GLEPs. They seem similar to the |
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internet RFCs in some ways. However, I've not found them in my wanderings |
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on the site, yet, and don't know much about them. Anybody care to point |
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me to them, and to something explaining them a bit? |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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