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On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:02 am, Peter Ruskin wrote: |
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> We can't make Gentoo like Windows. |
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I'd hope that we'd make it better, to be honest :) |
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I for one hate emerging an app, only to have to go hunting later to find the |
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binaries that need adding to the desktop menus. This is 2003, not 1993, and |
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by now I'd have hoped that we could do better. |
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> My bad experience of Mandrake's menu implementation (copied from Debian) |
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> influences my reaction to your proposals. There they decided to |
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> disable kmenuedit and reroute all KDE menus into their own tree. I |
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> will have nothing to do with any such interference to a good, working |
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> menu system. |
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A creditable (sp?) menu system would install native menu entries for each |
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supported WM, I'd hope. |
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I'd hope that any technical solution would provide a new wm-menu eclass, which |
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exports a (for arguments sake) 'wm-install-menuitem' function that |
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transparently installs menu entries for each of the wm's currently active. |
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Yes, it would mean going back and changing lots of existing ebuilds, but it |
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would be a worthy change. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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