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Hi! |
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I just want to clarify what is the purpose of the rules file. It contains a |
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set of functions for generating the various menu elements for a spicific |
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window manager. E.g. it would contain a start_submenu function, which is |
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called to begin a new sub menu. |
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I would like to explain my position of using bash scripts. Even though the |
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rules files will be installed by the WM ebuild, it is likely that the users |
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will want to change some things, which are not directly customisable through |
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the menu files (though we'll do our best to cut down on such things). It is |
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reasonable to expect the vast majority of users to be familiar with bash (at |
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least basic stuff), while not really many users now Python. With this in mind |
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I have proposed to use shell. |
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P.S. Heh, I also was gonna write it. Youwere quicker ;) |
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On Wednesday 13 August 2003 19:44, Heinrich Wendel wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Svyatogor and me are working on a menu system (like debian ones) for |
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> gentoo. Now we have come to the part where we have to decide whether to use |
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> python or bash scripts for the rule files of the window managers. |
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> The Python scripts are 2 times as fast as a bash script and in my opinion |
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> would make live easier, are easier to handle. But svyatogor votes for bash |
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> scripts, as more people know how to write bash scripts than python scripts, |
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> here an example of both: |
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> Python: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/gentoo-menu/examples/f |
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>luxbox.py?rev=1.3&cvsroot=gentoo-src&content-type=text/plain |
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> Bash: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/gentoo-menu/examples/f |
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>luxbox.wm?rev=1.3&cvsroot=gentoo-src&content-type=text/plain |
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> What would you prefer? |
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> mfg, heinrich |
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Let the Force be with us! |
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Sergey Kuleshov |
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