Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Bash vs. Python Rule files

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 14 August 2003 13:37, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 07:28, Svyatogor wrote:
> > This is what Debian did and many people complain about this, cause they
> > want to be able to use KDE native menu system.
> > Answering your question  'Why should I modify every ebuild'. Not every,
> > but only the ones which provide some apps with UI. Secondly you don't
> > *have to*. If you want users of your app's to edit files themselves -
> > fair enough.
>
> FEATURES=-menu emerge kde
>
> Better yet, the menu FEATURE should NOT be the default, but rather need
> to be set by the user to enable the Gentoo menus.

I think it should also be doable to have the gentoo menu maintenance 
application also able to just do everything in the default location. But in 
any case the gentoo menu system as I understand it provides a global menu. 
Most windowmanagers also have user menu's and certainly do not provide means 
for normal users to change the global menu. As the gentoo-menu application 
provides a native menustructure for a windowmanager (only at a different 
location?) the user menu editor should continue to function as expected, only 
having the global items being managed differently.

Paul

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