Re: [gentoo-dev] Status of GLEP 16

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sun, 2 May 2004 14:43:19 +0200 Alexander Gretencord <arutha@×××.de>
wrote:
| On Saturday 01 May 2004 16:10, Brandon Hale wrote:
| > > * domenu[12_] has to be included in portage to be used by the
| > > ebuilds to install a desktop entry
| > Also, from further discussions with foser on the topic, I get the
| > impression that the idea is to throw the current ability to edit the
| > menu to my taste out the window and go for a menu generated
| > completely by .desktop items.
| 
| If this is really the case I'm all against the proposal. Easily
| generated menus desktop icons or whatever is great for Joe Average or
| else he won't find the apps but this MUST NOT (see RFC2119) make it
| impossible for me to edit my menus the way I want.

Well... The way I'm planning to implement it for fluxbox is to have a
[Gentoo Menu] (or something) submenu off the main right click menu. This
would be implemented by adding a line roughly like the following to the
default fluxbox menu (syntax may be different if fluxgen's new code
works):

[pipe] (Gentoo Menu) {gentoo-commonbox-menu-thingie.py --fluxbox}

and patching fluxbox-generate_menu to include said line by default. No
desktop icons, obviously, because fluxbox doesn't support them.

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