Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Some Comments

[Stuart Herbert]

On Thursday 14 August 2003 1:01 pm, Svyatogor wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2003 14:31, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> > A creditable (sp?) menu system would install native menu entries for each
> > supported WM, I'd hope.
> >
> > I'd hope that any technical solution would provide a new wm-menu eclass,
> > which exports a (for arguments sake) 'wm-install-menuitem' function that
> > transparently installs menu entries for each of the wm's currently
> > active. Yes, it would mean going back and changing lots of existing
> > ebuilds, but it would be a worthy change.
>
> Not exactly for each wm, but a single 'universal' desktop entry, based on
> which we generate native wm menus.

The main advantage is central administration of the menu items added by 
ebuilds.  That's a powerful advantage, and one that has its place for sure.

But generating native wm menus seems to me to imply some form of overwriting 
of what's already there - which is at the heart of the objections that some 
of the previous posters in this thread have raised.  That is, if your tool 
re-generates all the menus any time *any* ebuild tries to add a new menu 
item.

Best regards,
Stu
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