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Why?? |
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Whenever I install Mandrake the first thing I do is disable its menu |
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system. It's ugly and IMHO unnecessary. KDE has a pretty good menu |
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system of its own as has gnome. |
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On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 16:08, Tom Philbrick wrote: |
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> Searching the mailing list archives, I see that back in April someone |
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> asked about automatic menus. One reply said that it was already being |
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> worked on, while others said the opposite. Is anyone currently working |
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> on an automatic menu system for gentoo, and if so, what is its status? |
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> |
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> I ask because I am in the process of porting the debian menu system |
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> over to gentoo, but I realized I should stop and see if it is worth the |
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> effort. I have the program working as far as I can tell, although I |
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> haven't done much testing yet. It still needs a lot of work, but most |
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> of that is tailoring it to gentoo rather than debian (rewriting |
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> documentation, and making my hacks less of a hack). The build isn't |
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> pretty, I see now why debian is not a source distro, but it works for |
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> now and I'm working on cleaning it up. |
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> |
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> For those of you that have never used debian (or mandrake, as menudrake |
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> uses the debian menu system under the hood) you can read a good |
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> overview of it at: |
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> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/index.html For |
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> the system to work, it would require that every package that wants to |
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> use a menu must install a menu-method that describes how to generate a |
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> menu for that program (these can me borrowed from debian, or written |
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> from scratch). It also would require that every application that wanted |
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> to be in a menu include a simple menu file that describes what the menu |
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> entry should be. Yes that means a lot of packages would need to be |
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> updated, but the menufiles take about 30 seconds to write, and are |
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> simple enough for anyone to do. |
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> So what should I do? Post a new package bug now? Wait until it is |
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> completely done? Wait until a better time? Give up in favor of a more |
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> mature, or better, solution? |
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> |
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> -Tom Philbrick |
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> _______________________________________________ |
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> gentoo-dev mailing list |
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> gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev |
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Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586. KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4. |
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AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB. Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin |
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